1. Age related macular degeneration: Smoking entails major risk of blindness
- Author
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C Simon P Kelly, Peter Elton, Paul Mitchell, and Richard Edwards
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Blindness ,business.industry ,Cross-sectional study ,General Engineering ,Large population ,General Medicine ,Odds ratio ,Macular degeneration ,Audiology ,medicine.disease ,eye diseases ,Confidence interval ,Age related ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Medicine ,Letters ,business ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
EDITOR—Chopdar et al's review of age related macular degeneration was timely,1 but they paid insufficient attention to the association between smoking and age related macular degeneration. Pooled results from three large population based cross sectional studies found an odds ratio for all types of age related macular degeneration of 3.12 (95% confidence interval 2.10 to 4.64) for current smokers compared with never smokers.2 …
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- 2003