Combined influence of poor health behaviours on the prevalence and 15-year incidence of age-related macular degeneration

Abstract We aimed to establish the collective influence of four lifestyle practices (physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol consumption) on the prevalence and incidence of AMD. At baseline, 2428 participants aged 49+ with complete lifestyle and AMD data were examined, and of these, 1903 partic...

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Autores principales: Bamini Gopinath, Gerald Liew, Victoria M. Flood, Nichole Joachim, George Burlutsky, Paul Mitchell
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Sumario:Abstract We aimed to establish the collective influence of four lifestyle practices (physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol consumption) on the prevalence and incidence of AMD. At baseline, 2428 participants aged 49+ with complete lifestyle and AMD data were examined, and of these, 1903 participants were re-examined 15 years later. AMD was assessed from retinal photographs. A health behaviour score was calculated, allocating 1 point for each poor behaviour: current smoking; fruits and vegetables consumed <4 serves daily; <3 episodes of physical activity per week; and >2 alcoholic drinks per day. Cross-sectional analysis showed that participants who engaged in all 4 poor health behaviours (n = 29) versus those who did not engage in unhealthy behaviours (reference group; n = 677) had greater odds of any and late AMD: multivariable-adjusted OR, 5.14 (95% CI, 1.04–25.45) and OR 29.53 (95% CI 2.72–321.16), respectively. A marginally non-significant association was observed between increasing number of poor health behaviours and 15-year incidence of early AMD (multivariable-adjusted P-trend = 0.08). Our data suggests that motivating patients with AMD to eat better, exercise more, limit alcohol intake and avoid smoking seems advisable to decelerate the development or worsening of existing AMD.