Prevalence and Risk Factors for Age-Related Macular Degeneration in an Adult Japanese Population. The Funagata Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Kawasaki, Ryo ^a,b   Wang, Jie Jin ^b,c   Ji, Gui jin ^d   Taylor, Bronwen ^c   Oizumi, Toshihide ^a   Daimon, Makoto ^a   Kato, Takeo ^a   Kawata, Sumio ^a   Kayama, Takamasa ^a   Tano, Yasuo ^e   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Yamashita, Hidetoshi ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^b,f  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d HuBit Genomix   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; JAPANESE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYDRIASIS; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 48149112109     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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