Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration in Japanese immigrants and their descendants living in Londrina (PR) - Brazil

Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Thailand

“…16 The similar prevalence of early AMD in males and females in this study was not in concordance with other studies which found a higher prevalence in males. 3,6,7,8,9,11,12 This discrepancy might have occurred by chance due to the higher proportion of female enrolled into this study.…”

“…4,5 In the last decade many studies of the prevalence of AMD in Asian populations have been published, using the same standard methods for classifying AMD as those in Caucasian populations. Data from these studies, conducted in China, 6,7 Japan, 8 India, 9 Taiwan, 10 Singapore, 11 Brazil, 12 and the United States, 3 were systematically reviewed with meta-analysis by Kawasaki. 13 They showed that the prevalence of AMD in Asian populations was comparable with that in Caucasian populations.…”

Pattern of Macular Disorders in Himachal Pradesh, India

“…[5] The prevalence of early-stage agerelated macular degeneration was 13.8% , geographic atrophy was present in 0.4% and neovascular age-related macular degeneration in 0.8%. [14] The prevalence of any ARMD was 4.72 % with 3.82 % early ARMD and 1.70 % late ARMD. [15] Early and late AMD prevalence were 11.2% and 1.2%, respectively.…”

Early Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Patients with Myocardial Infarction

“…16 Oguido et al revealed that frequencies of early and latestage AMD was 14.6% (CI, 95%; 10.9-19.2) in females and 15.8% (CI, 95%; 10.8-22.0) in males, but that gender differences were not statistically significant (P = 0.171). 17 A meta-analysis of population-based studies revealed that women have only a slightly higher prevalence of the disease and that this risk is confined mainly to those older than 65 years of age. 18 Our study included middleaged (40-64 years of age) study subjects, our random population sample revealed a significantly higher prevalence of AMD in males than in females in the 45-54 years of age group.…”