Features of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the General Adults and Their Dependency on Age, Sex, and Smoking: Results from the German KORA Study

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-350663
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.35066

Brandl, Caroline

; Breinlich, Valentin Andreas ; Stark, Klaus J. ; Enzinger, Sabrina ; Aßenmacher, Matthias ; Olden, Matthias ; Grassmann, Felix

; Graw, Jochen

; Heier, Margit ; Peters, Annette

; Helbig, Horst ; Küchenhoff, Helmut ; Weber, Bernhard H. F.

; Heid, Iris M.

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Abstract

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a vision impairing disease of the central retina characterized by early and late forms in individuals older than 50 years of age. However, there is little knowledge to what extent also younger adults are affected. We have thus set out to estimate the prevalence of early AMD features and late AMD in a general adult population by acquiring color fundus ...