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Smoking Linked to Macular Degeneration
Fri, 05/04/2001 - 12:00am — Karen Stevenson
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A study pooling results from several eye disease studies conducted on three continents shows that tobacco smoking is the principal known preventable risk factor associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The study, analyzing combined data from studies conducted in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and the Blue Mountains area, west of Sydney, Australia; shows that apart from age, tobacco smoking is the only risk factor consistently associated with any form of AMD in each study location and overall.
The study appears in the April 2001 issue of Ophthalmology, the clinical journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Eye M.D. Association.
A study pooling results from several eye disease studies conducted on three continents shows that tobacco smoking is the principal known preventable risk factor associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The study, analyzing combined data from studies conducted in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and the Blue Mountains area, west of Sydney, Australia; shows that apart from age, tobacco smoking is the only risk factor consistently associated with any form of AMD in each study location and overall.
The study appears in the April 2001 issue of Ophthalmology, the clinical journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Eye M.D. Association.
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