Senile macular changes in the black African.
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- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 62 (8), 547-550
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.62.8.547
Abstract
One thousand black African and 380 white Caucasian patients over the age of 50 were examined for evidence of age-related macular changes, namely, drusen, pigment epithelial atrophy, and disciform macular degeneration. Drusen and pigment epithelial changes were found to occur twice as commonly in Caucasians as in Africans; there was a much greater difference in the prevalence of disciform macular degeneration between the 2 groups. The cause of the differences remains unexplained.Keywords
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