Journal article
The impact of typical neovascular age-related macular degeneration and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy on vision-related quality of life in Asian patients
EK Fenwick, CMG Cheung, PG Ong, G Tan, SY Lee, I Yeo, CY Cheng, TY Wong, EL Lamoureux
British Journal of Ophthalmology | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2017
Abstract
Aims To determine the impact of neovascular agerelated macular degeneration (nAMD) on vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) in an Asian population. Methods In this cross-sectional study, 162 subjects with nAMD from the Asian AMD Phenotyping Study and 105 randomly sampled age-matched and gendermatched controls from the population-based Singapore Chinese Eye Study were recruited. nAMD was categorised as either polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) or 'typical' AMD (tAMD). The reading, mobility and emotional well-being subscales of the impact of vision impairment (IVI) scale were validated using Rasch analysis and used as the main outcome measures and collectively referred to as VRQoL. Multi..
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Awarded by National Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This study was supported by grants from the National Medical Research Council (STaR/0003/2008 and NIG/1003/2009), National Medical Research Council grant NMRC/NIG/1003/2009; the Singapore Bio Imaging Consortium (C-011/2006) and the Biomedical Research Council (08/1/35/19/550). EF is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship (# 1072987). The Centre for Eye Research Australia receives Operational Infrastructure Support from the Victorian Government.