... Age-related macular degeneration Vitamin B1 Epidemiology Population-based Dietary intake Public health NHANES Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a widely known sight-threatening chronic condition that cannot be reversed. It is characterized by progressive degeneration...

...Tiancong Chang; Yun Zhang; Ling Liu; Keren Zhang; Xinyu Zhang; Miao Wang; Yue Zeng; Meixia Zhang Introduction: Intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) are a serious subset of open-globe injury that can result in visual loss. This study analyzed the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and visual...

... definition and analysis, best-corrected VA was not included in the analysis due to collinearity consideration [9]. Glaucoma was defined using the definition developed by the International Society for Geographical and Epidemiological Ophthalmology [ 10 ]. Cataract was assessed by ophthalmologists...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2020 Diabetes Ophthalmology Eye care use Epidemiology Optical coherence tomography Intravitreal injection Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the ocular manifestation...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Epidemiology Prevalence Glaucoma Ocular hypertension The number of people with glaucoma worldwide in 2040 is estimated to be about 111 million [ 1 ]. Glaucoma is the first cause of irreversible blindness and represents about 6...

... and geographic atrophy was 0.4%. Progression occurred in 17.2% of patients. Conclusion: The early AMD incidence in a coastal town of central Portugal was found to be similar to that of major epidemiological studies of European-descent populations; however, the incidence of late AMD was lower, and further...

... with early and late AMD, respectively. Macular degeneration Epidemiology Risk factors North Africa Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative disease of the retina and the leading cause of blindness in Western populations [ 1 ], although more knowledge and effective...

...Eric H. Souied; Tariq Aslam; Alfredo Garcia-Layana; Frank G. Holz; Anita Leys; Rufino Silva; Cécile Delcourt Against a background of considerable epidemiological and other evidence implicating omega-3 fatty acids in the prevention of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the negative results...

...Elena Prokofyeva; Eberhart Zrenner The objective of this work was to study the epidemiology of major eye diseases leading to blindness in Europe through a systematic literature review. The literature search was performed using the Medline database (PubMed), with MeSH and free text search terms...

..., in the seventies. Subsequently, cataract epidemiology became a field of interest in 1980 when all available epidemiological data related to cataract research were first collected and reviewed. It has become obvious that the various types of cataract morphology do not represent one unique disease ‘senile cataract...

...Kazuyuki Sasaki; Takashi Shibata; Hajime Obazawa; Takaaki Fujiwara; Fumio Kogure; Yoshitaka Obara; Motokazu Itoi; Keiichirou Katou; Kenichi Akiyama; Shigemi Okuyama A cataract classification and grading system for the main purpose of cataract epidemiological studies is proposed by the Japanese...

...E.S. Perkins The pathology and epidemiology of pinguecula suggest that it is due to exposure to sunlight. There is some epidemiological and laboratory evidence that sunlight is an etiological factor in cataract so that it would be expected that the two conditions – pinguecula and cataract – would...

... of both racial groups. These differences support not only a racial and a gender factor but also a possible environmental influence. 28 6 2002 Cornea guttata Corneal endothelial morphology Specular microscopy Epidemiology © 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel 2002 Copyright / Drug Dosage...

...Milan Ivanišević; Lovro Bojić; Davor Eterović We studied the epidemiological characteristics of nontraumatic phakic rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in a defined population of Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. A total of 278 eyes of 272 patients developed RRD during an 11-year period, 1988...

...Kazuyuki Sasaki Cataract epidemiological surveys applying a photodocumentation system were performed by the author’s group in three climatically different sites with racially different populations: Noto (Japan), Reykjavik (Iceland) and Singapore. Data regarding age- and sex-related changes in lens...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Cataract Prevalence Epidemiology Intra-ocular lens Extracapsular cataract extraction Risk factors Ophthalmic Res...