Olive Oil Consumption and Age-Related Macular Degeneration: The Alienor Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Olive oil provides a mixture of lipids and antioxidant nutrients which may help preventing age-related diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, little is known about the associations between olive oil consumption and the risk of AMD.

Objective

To examine associations between olive oil use and AMD prevalence in elderly subjects.

Methods

Alienor (Antioxydants, Lipides Essentiels, Nutrition et maladies OculaiRes) is a population-based study on eye diseases performed in elderly residents of Bordeaux (France). In 1999-2000, frequencies of consumption of main categories of dietary fats used were collected. In 2006-2088, AMD was graded from non mydriatic retinal photographs into three exclusive stages: no AMD, early AMD, and late AMD. Two

SUBMITTER: Cougnard-Gregoire A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4965131 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature