Determinants of macular pigment optical density and its relation to age-related maculopathy: Results from the muenster aging and retina study (MARS)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3452-3457

  Dietzel, Martha ^a,b   Zeimer, Meike ^b   Heimes, Britta ^b   Claes, Birte ^a   Pauleikhoff, Daniel ^b   Hense, Hans Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ST FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN; ANTIOXIDANT; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MACULAR PIGMENT OPTICAL DENSITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SMOKING; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AGING; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DENSITOMETRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGING; ANTIOXIDANTS; BODY MASS INDEX; DENSITOMETRY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUTEIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SMOKING; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 79955615331     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6713     Document Type: Article

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