Undiagnosed AMD prevalence in urban setting higher than national average

SALT LAKE CITY — The prevalence of undiagnosed age-related macular degeneration was higher in an urban setting vs. established national averages, according to a study.
Adriana Kaganovski, BA, and colleagues conducted a post-hoc analysis of a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of AMD in a diverse cohort of urban primary care patients.
“Our main goal here was to see what the prevalence of undiagnosed AMD was in our patient population in diverse patient settings in New York City,” she said at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Read more...)