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SUBMITTER: Brandl C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5125704 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brandl Caroline C Breinlich Valentin V Stark Klaus J KJ Enzinger Sabrina S Aßenmacher Matthias M Olden Matthias M Grassmann Felix F Graw Jochen J Heier Margit M Peters Annette A Helbig Horst H Küchenhoff Helmut H Weber Bernhard H F BH Heid Iris M IM
PloS one 20161128 11
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 images in 2,840 individuals aged 25 to 74 years of the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsb ...[more]