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. and Heid, Iris M. (2016) Features of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the General Adults and Their Dependency on Age, Sex, and Smoking: Results from the German KORA Study. PLoS ONE 11 (11), e0167181.
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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 ...
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| Item type: | Article | ||||
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| Date: | 28 November 2016 | ||||
| Institutions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Humangenetik Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin | ||||
| Projects: | Open Access Publizieren (DFG) | ||||
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| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine | ||||
| Status: | Published | ||||
| Refereed: | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg: | Yes | ||||
| Item ID: | 35066 |
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