American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 147, No. 2: 103-110
Copyright © 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Relation of Smoking to the Incidence of Age-related Maculopathy
The Beaver Dam Eye Study
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School Madison, Wl
To date, a number of reports have been published on the relation of cigarette smoking to age-related maculopathy, an important cause of blindness in the United States. However, few studies have examined the relation between smoking and the incidence of age-related maculopathy. In this report, the authors examine this association in persons aged 43–86 years (n = 3,583) at baseline who were participants in the baseline examination and 5-year follow-up of the Beaver Dam Eye Study, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (1988–1990 and 1993–1995). Exposure data on cigarette smoking were obtained from questions about present and past smoking, duration of smoking, and the number of cigarettes smoked per day. Age-related maculopathy status was determined by grading stereoscopic color fundus photographs using the Wisconsin Age-related Maculopathy Grading System. After controlling for age, sex, vitamin supplement use, and beer consumption, men who smoked greater amounts of cigarettes were more likely to develop early age-related maculopathy (odds ratio (OR) per 10 pack-years smoked = 1.06, 95% confidence interval (Cl) 1.00–1.13, p = 0.06) than men who had smoked less. This association was not observed in women. Men (OR = 3.21, 95% Cl 1.09–9.45) and women (OR = 2.20, 95% Cl 1.04–4.66) who were current smokers at the time of the baseline examination had significantly higher odds of developing large drusen (
250 µm in diameter) after 5 years than those who had never smoked or who quit before the baseline study. Current or past history of cigarette smoking was not related to the incidence of retinal pigment epithelial depigmentation. The authors conclude that smoking appears to be related to the incidence of some lesions associated with early age-related maculopathy. Am J Epidemiol 1998;147:103–10.
incidence; maculopathy; age-related; risk factors; smoking
Reprint requests to Dr. Ronald Klein, Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 610 N. Walnut Street, 460 WARF, Madison, WI 53705-2397.
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