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PurposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of lutein on systemic complement activation in elderly individuals.
MethodsSeventy patients with signs of early age‐related macular degeneration (AMD) were included in this study. All subjects were randomly assigned to receive a 10 mg daily dose of lutein or a placebo for a time period of 1 year. EDTA blood was collected before and at...
A rapid portable technique for estimating macular pigment optical density (MPOD) in large populations is described. The new instrument utilises a novel method for setting flicker thresholds which is undemanding for naive and elderly observers and easily operated by a non-technical person. The method has good repeatability (r = 0.97) and the data are comparable with an optical method based on retinal...
Purpose: To compare the macular pigment optical density (MPOD) of patients with unilateral wet age‐related macular degeneration (AMD) with the MPOD of bilateral dry AMD patients and healthy elderly individuals.
Methods: The MPOD of 34 patients with unilateral wet AMD was measured in their fellow eye that had the dry form of the disease (study group). The MPOD of the study group was compared with...
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