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Epidemiology of age-related macular degeneration (AMD): associations with cardiovascular disease phenotypes and lipid factors
1 Dec 2016
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in adults over 50 years old. Genetic, epidemiological, and molecular studies are beginning to unravel the intricate mechanisms underlying this complex disease, which implicate the lipid-cholesterol pathway in the pathophysiology of disease development and progression. Many of the genetic and environmental risk factors associated...
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