Journal article
Macular Degeneration
Annual Review of Medicine, Vol.58(1), pp.477-490
02/18/2007
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.58.111405.133335
PMID: 16922634
Abstract
Macular degeneration is a term that describes a large group of conditions that are collectively the most common cause of irreversible vision loss in the developed world. Approximately one in three people will be affected to some degree by the time they reach 75 years of age. Many forms of macular degeneration have a significant genetic component, and a large amount of progress has recently been made in understanding the genes involved. In the future, genetic testing may allow specific preventive treatments to be delivered to individuals at risk, decades before the disease would ordinarily become manifest.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Macular Degeneration
- Creators
- Edwin M Stone
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annual Review of Medicine, Vol.58(1), pp.477-490
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev.med.58.111405.133335
- PMID
- 16922634
- NLM abbreviation
- Annu Rev Med
- ISSN
- 0066-4219
- eISSN
- 1545-326X
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/18/2007
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983979905102771
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