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Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Incident Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in people over 65 years old in the United States and has been associated with cardiovascular risk and decreased survival. There is conflicting data, however, regarding the contribution of AMD to the prediction of stroke.

Aim

To determine whether AMD is a risk indicator for incident stroke in a meta-analysis of available prospective and retrospective cohort studies published in the English literature.

Methods

We performed a systematic literature search of all studies published in English with Pub Med and other databases from 1966 to August 2014, reporting stroke incidence in patients with macular degeneration. Two investigators independently extracted the data. A random effects model was used to report Odds ratios (OR), with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI). Meta-regression using a mixed linear model was used to understand potential heterogeneity amongst studies.

Results

We identified 9 studies that reported stroke incidence in patients with and without early AMD (N = 1,420,978). No significant association was found between early AMD with incident stroke. Combined, these 9 studies demonstrated random effects (OR, 1.12; CI, 0.86-1.47; I2 = 96%). Meta-regression on baseline covariates of age, sex, and year of publication did not significantly relate to heterogeneity.

Conclusions

We found no significant relationship between AMD and incident stroke. Further studies are needed to clarify other causes of decreased survival in patients with AMD.

SUBMITTER: Fernandez AB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4651536 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Incident Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Fernandez Antonio B AB Panza Gregory A GA Cramer Benjamin B Chatterjee Saurav S Jayaraman Ramya R Wu Wen-Chih WC

PloS one 20151118 11

<h4>Background</h4>Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in people over 65 years old in the United States and has been associated with cardiovascular risk and decreased survival. There is conflicting data, however, regarding the contribution of AMD to the prediction of stroke.<h4>Aim</h4>To determine whether AMD is a risk indicator for incident stroke in a meta-analysis of available prospective and retrospective cohort studies published in the E ...[more]

PMID: 26580396

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Project description:TopicThough lipid and cholesterol dyshomeostasis is thought to contribute to the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), there is no consensus regarding which elements of systemic lipid homeostasis are perturbed in AMD. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, an update to that performed by Wang et al in 2016, we characterized serum lipoprotein profiles in patients with AMD and its various stages.Clinical relevanceThese findings may identify novel therapeutic approaches for AMD, a leading cause of blindness among older adults in the industrialized world.MethodsWe used MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science to identify articles from database inception to May 2022 that reported blood/serum levels of lipid subspecies (triglycerides [TGs], total cholesterol [TC], low-density lipoprotein [LDL], and high-density lipoprotein [HDL]) in patients with AMD compared with controls. We meta-analyzed the data by generating multilevel random-effects models using restricted maximum likelihood estimation.ResultsOur updated meta-analysis included 56 studies, almost 3 times as many studies as the 2016 meta-analysis with a total of 308 188 participants. There were no significant differences in serum TG, TC, LDL, or HDL between patients with AMD and non-AMD controls. Given significant heterogeneity, we performed subanalyses specifically in patients with early to intermediate nonexudative AMD, advanced nonexudative AMD, and advanced exudative AMD. Compared with non-AMD controls, patients with early to intermediate nonexudative AMD had significantly lower serum TG (standardized mean difference [SMD]: -0.03; 95% confidence interval [95% CI]: -0.06 to -0.01) and higher serum HDL (SMD: 0.07; 95% CI: 0.04-0.11). Patients with advanced exudative AMD had significantly higher serum LDL (SMD: 0.33; 95% CI: 0.04-0.62) compared with non-AMD controls. There were no other significant differences identified.ConclusionWe found that there is significant heterogeneity in systemic lipoproteins in patients with AMD compared with non-AMD controls. The specific pattern of lipid dyshomeostasis appeared to be distinct based on AMD stage. These findings highlight both the underlying heterogeneity of AMD as well as the presence of distinct pathophysiological mechanisms involved at different stages or subtypes of AMD and may inform the development of novel therapeutic approaches.Financial disclosuresProprietary or commercial disclosure may be found in the Footnotes and Disclosures at the end of this article.

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Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Incident Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background

Aim

Methods

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Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Incident Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

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