Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in an Elderly Chinese Population in Taiwan: The Shihpai Eye Study

Abstract

AMD is a common eye disease in the elderly Chinese people in Taiwan. The adjusted prevalence rate of exudative AMD is comparable to that in the Chinese people in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) in the United States but is higher than in the Chinese people in the Beijing study in China. Further studies are needed to clarify the incidence and associated risk factors.