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Mauschitz, M.M.* ; Schmitz, M.T.* ; Verzijden, T.* ; Schmid, M.* ; Thee, E.F.* ; Colijn, J.M.* ; Delcourt, C.* ; Cougnard-Grégoire, A.* ; Merle, B.M.J.* ; Korobelnik, J.F.* ; Gopinath, B.* ; Mitchell, P.* ; Elbaz, H.* ; Schuster, A.K.* ; Wild, P.S.* ; Brandl, C.* ; Stark, K.J.* ; Heid, I.M.* ; Günther, F.* ; Peters, A. ; Klaver, C.C.W.* ; Finger, R.P.*

Physical activity, incidence and progression of age-related macular degeneration: A multi-cohort study.

Am. J. Ophthalmol. 236, 99-106 (2021)
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PURPOSE: To investigate the impact of physical activity (PA) on the incidence or progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the general population. DESIGN: Meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies. METHODS: We included a total of 14,630 adults with no or early AMD at baseline from seven population-based studies and examined associations of PA with AMD incidence and progression using multi-state models (MSM) per study and subsequent random effects meta-analysis. Age effects were assessed using meta-regression. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Hazard ratio (HR) for incident early or progression to late AMD. RESULTS: At baseline, mean age ranged from 60.7± 6.9 to 76.4 ± 4.3 years and prevalence of early AMD was 7.7%, ranging from 3.6 to 16.9% between cohorts. During follow-up, 1461 and 189 events occurred for early and late AMD, respectively. In meta-analyses, no or low to moderate PA (high PA as reference) was associated with an increased risk for incident early AMD (HR 1.19; 95%CI=[1.01, 1.40]; p=0.04), but not for late AMD. In subsequent meta-regression, we found no association of age with the effect of PA on incident AMD. CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests high levels of PA to be protective for the development of early AMD across several population-based cohort studies. Our results establish PA as a modifiable risk factor for AMD and inform further AMD prevention strategies to reduce its public health impact.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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ISSN (print) / ISBN 0002-9394
e-ISSN 1879-1891
Journal American Journal of Ophthalmology
Quellenangaben Volume: 236, Issue: , Pages: 99-106 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Elsevier
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI2)