Association of Self-reported Diabetes with Age-related Macular Degeneration in the EUREYE study

Fotis Topouzis (1) , Eleftherios Anastasopoulos (1) , Cristina A Augood (2) , Graham C Bentham (3) , Usha Chakravarthy (4) , Paulus T V M de Jong (5) , Mati Rahu (6) , Johan Seland (7) , Gisele Soubrane (8) , Laura Tomazzoli (9) , Johannes R Vingerling (5) , Jesus Vioque (10) , Ian S Young (4) , Astrid E Fletcher (2)

1 Department of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2 Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
3 UEA - University of East Anglia [Norwich]
4 QUB - Queen's University [Belfast]
5 The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam
6 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallin
7 Haukeland University Hospital
8 Clinique Ophtalmologique, Universitaire De Creteil, Paris
9 UNIVR - Università degli studi di Verona = University of Verona
10 UMH - Universidad Miguel Hernández [Elche]

To examine the association between self-reported diabetes and early or late age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the European population.

Mots clés: Macula; Epidemiology; Degeneration; Eureye study; age-related macular degeneration; diabetes

Fotis Topouzis, Eleftherios Anastasopoulos, Cristina A Augood, Graham C Bentham, Usha Chakravarthy, et al.. Association of Self-reported Diabetes with Age-related Macular Degeneration in the EUREYE study. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2009, 93 (8), pp.1037-n/a. ⟨10.1136/bjo.2008.146316⟩. ⟨hal-00477813⟩