Prevalence and risk factors for age-related macular degeneration in a population-based cohort study of older adults in Northern Ireland using multimodal imaging: NICOLA Study
Conclusions
Multimodal imaging-based classification has provided evidence of some divergence of genetic risk associations between classical drusen and SDD. Our findings support an urgent review of current AMD severity classification systems.
Source: British Journal of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Hogg, R. E., Wright, D. M., Quinn, N. B., Muldrew, K. A., Hamill, B., Smyth, L., McKnight, A. J., Woodside, J., Tully, M. A., Cruise, S., McGuinness, B., Young, I. S., Kee, F., Peto, T., Chakravarthy, U. Tags: Open access Original articles - Clinical science Source Type: research
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