… disease in the general population, which results in low power to detect relationships between
the disease and hypothesized risk factors.… report, data from the 3 largest population-based …

… The pooled annual early and late AMD incidence rates were … from 12 countries and 5
continents were included in the … [52], as age is a risk factor for AMD and the problem of the aging …

… ; 2) for three epidemiological studies that examined the risk of late … estimates and pooled
estimates of the three studies exist. … This finding is supported by the results of the meta-analysis …

… weak risk factor for late AMD.63, 64 The finding of the present study summarizing previous
meta-analyses agrees with the results of … of neovascular age-related macular degeneration or …

… pooled data analyses or meta-analyses of baseline and 5-year follow-up data from the 3
population-based studies to assess risk factors … contributed to our findings. Finally, as the …

… risk factors associated with the incidence and progression of this lesion type in age-related
macular degeneration (… was likely due to the few incident late AMD cases in this cohort. These …

… (colour fundus imaging, Three Continent AMD Consortium Severity … risk factor association
for: (1) incident early AMD, (2) incident … By integrating our results with estimates from four other …

… Greater body mass was found to be associated with higher risk of incident GA in our … risk
factors and conducted multiple tests of significance. Therefore, some of our significant findings …

… The major non-genetic risk factors are smoking and low dietary … with 5- and 10-year incident
data in a population-based … similar in all ethnic groups, with a pooled prevalence of 0·46%. …

… Our finding that diabetes was a predictor of incident GA, but not … pulse pressure and incident
AMD observed in other longitudinal population-based studies.7, 23 In the pooled analysis of …