Associations Between Vitamin D Intake and Progression to Incident Advanced Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Author(s) -
Bénédicte M. J. Merle,
Rachel Silver,
Bernard Rosner,
Johanna M. Seddon
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
investigative ophthalmology and visual science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.935
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1552-5783
pISSN - 0146-0404
DOI - 10.1167/iovs.17-21673
Subject(s) - medicine , macular degeneration , hazard ratio , vitamin d and neurology , confidence interval , vitamin , vitamin e , vitamin c , prospective cohort study , proportional hazards model , nutrient , physiology , ophthalmology , biology , antioxidant , ecology , biochemistry
There is growing evidence of the importance of nutrition in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but no prospective studies have explored the impact of vitamin D. We evaluated the association between vitamin D intake and progression to advanced AMD.
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