[PDF][PDF] Just the berries. Age-related macular degeneration.

JR Hamilton - Canadian Family Physician, 2000 - cfp.ca
Macular degeneration is the most common registrable visual handicap among older people
in North America. 1, 2 A survey of several journals, including Ophthalmology, Archives of …

Can an apple (or orange or banana) a day keep the ophthalmologist away?

L Skorin Jr - Consultant, 2005 - go.gale.com
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of untreated vision loss
among persons 65 years and older and accounts for 45% of all visual disability in the United …

Advising patients about age-related macular degeneration

SL Fine - Archives of Ophthalmology, 1993 - jamanetwork.com
Since age-relatedmacular degeneration (AMD) is the most frequent cause of severe vision
loss in the Western Hemisphere, it is likely that all ophthalmologists will examine increasing …

Why Older Americans Can't See

BF Woolf - Journal of the National Medical Association, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Betsy F. Woolf Approximately one in 28 Americans over age 40 is blind or has low vision,
according to a study published in the April issue ofthe Archives ofOphthalmology, and this …

Macular degeneration: A devastating but treatable disease

ME Farber, AS Farber - Postgraduate Medicine, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
Preview A patient who says that the door frames appear bent or wavy is describing a classic
symptom of macular degeneration. This disease is one of the leading causes of blindness in …

Age-related macular degeneration: can we stem this worldwide public health crisis?

CE Starr, DR Guyer, LA Yannuzzi - Postgraduate medicine, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
PREVIEW With more than 200,000 new cases of exudative age-related macular
degeneration occurring each year in the United States alone, early detection and treatment …

Eye health as you grow older

JP PAGE - JAMA, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
The JAMA Patient Page is a public service of JAMA and the AMA. The information and
recommendations appearing on this page are appropriate in most instances, but they are …

Age-Related Maculopathy—Degeneration by generation

RR Goldacre, TDL Keenan - JAMA ophthalmology, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
We are used to hearing that the burden of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in
developed countries is increasing because of increased life expectancies and aging …

Age-related macular degeneration

S Parmet, C Lynm, RM Glass - JAMA, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
people aged 65 years and older and affects more than 10 million Americans. AMD is caused
by a deterioration of the retina—the layer of the eye that contains cells that relay images …

Age-related macular degeneration: what can a family physician do?

ML Latowsky - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1988 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the most common cause of blindness in
Canada, and, as the name suggests, its incidence increases rapidly with age. Atrophic …