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Statins Do Not Decrease the Risk for Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Nadia Kaiserman Hebrew University Medical School, Ein-Karem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Shlomo Vinker Department of Family Medicine, Clalit Health Services, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Family Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Igor Kaiserman Department of Ophthalmology, Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Pages 304-310 | Received 15 Jun 2008, Accepted 12 Jan 2009, Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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