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Dietary folate, B vitamins, genetic susceptibility and progression to advanced nonexudative age-related macular degeneration with geographic atrophy: a prospective cohort study.
The American journal of clinical nutrition - 1 Apr 2016
Merle Bénédicte M J, Silver Rachel E, Rosner Bernard, Seddon Johanna M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: There is growing evidence of the importance of nutrition in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but few studies have explored associations with folate and B vitamins. No effective therapeutic strategy for geographic atrophy (GA) is available, and prevention could be of great value. OBJECTIVE: We investigated associations between dietary folate, B vitamins, and progression to GA and whether these...
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