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Methods for a population-based study of the prevalence of and risk factors for age-related maculopathy and macular degeneration in elderly European populations: the EUREYE study

Cristina Augood Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London
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Astrid Fletcher Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London
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Graham Bentham Centre for Environmental Risk, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich,
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Usha Chakravarthy Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Hospitals, Grosvenor Road,Belfast
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PTVM de Jong Netherlands Institute for Ophthalmic research (NORI),Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Mati Rahu Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Tallinn, Estonia
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Johan Seland Oyeavdelingen, Haukeland Sykehus, Bergen, Norway
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Gisele Soubrane Clinique Ophtalmologique Universitaire de Creteil, Universite de Paris - Val de Marne, Faculte de Medecin, Creteil Cedex, France
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Laura Tomazzoli Clinica Oculistica, Universita degli studi di Verona, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, Verona, Italy
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Fotis Topouzis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalomology, Ahepa University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Jesus Vioque Dpto Salud Publica, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Campus San Juan, Spain
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Ian Young Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Institute of Clinical Science, The Queen’s University of Belfast, U.K.
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Pages 117-129 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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