Senile macular degeneration: review of epidemiologic features.

Abstract:

:Senile macular degeneration is a leading cause of visual loss in the United States, England, and probably many other industrialized countries. The clinical manifestations of this disease include: drusen, atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, serous detachment of the retinal pigment epithelium, subretinal neovascularization, and disciform scars. Standardized techniques for defining these manifestations of senile macular degeneration are necessary for epidemiologic study of this disease. Such standardization is facilitated by the use of fundus photographs. If a visual acuity deficit is included in the definition of senile macular degeneration, care must be taken to assure that senile macular degeneration is responsible for the decreased vision. The Framingham Eye Study provides the best senile macular degeneration prevalence data. The rapid increase in prevalence of senile macular degeneration after the fifth decade is demonstrated in this study and is consistent with other studies. In fact, increasing age has the strongest association with senile macular degeneration of any of the risk factors considered to date. Many other possible risk factors have been identified but further investigation is necessary to verify these associations.

journal_name

Am J Epidemiol

authors

Ferris FL 3rd

doi

10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113624

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-08-01 00:00:00

pages

132-51

issue

2

eissn

0002-9262

issn

1476-6256

journal_volume

118

pub_type

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