Prevalence, racial variations, and risk factors of age-related macular degeneration in Singaporean Chinese, Indians, and Malays

Ophthalmology

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1598-1603

  Cheung, Chui Ming Gemmy ^a,b,c   Li, Xiang ^b,c   Cheng, Ching Yu ^b,c   Zheng, Yingfeng ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^d   Wang, Jie Jin ^d,e   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b,c,e  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abbreviations and Acronyms; age related macular degeneration; AMD; CI; confidence interval; odds ratio; OR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAY (PEOPLE); MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SINGAPORE; SMOKING; VERY ELDERLY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; INDIA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84905502262     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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