Key takeaways:

• A hospital in New York had a higher percentage of undiagnosed AMD compared with CDC reported values.
• Researchers hope appropriate screening can address the issue before the disease advances.

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 meeting. “What we found was that there is significantly higher percentage of undiagnosed AMD compared to CDC-reported values.”

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Source: Ocular Surgery News & Healio