Diet patterns and the incidence of age-related macular degeneration in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study.
CONCLUSIONS: Diet patterns were not significantly associated with incident any or incident early AMD. However, consumption of a Western pattern diet may be a risk factor for development of late AMD.
PMID: 31810976 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Dighe S, Zhao J, Steffen L, Mares JA, Meuer SM, Klein BEK, Klein R, Millen AE Tags: Br J Ophthalmol Source Type: research
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