The 4-year incidence and progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Latinos are lower than in non-Hispanic whites, according to a report from the Latino Eye Study. Latinos represent the largest of minority populations in the United States. According to the 2004 US Census, 35.6 million people, or 12.5% of the nation's residents,...

Racial minorities, including Latinos and Asian Americans, do not appear to have similar risks of developing nonexudative and exudative Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) as whites in the United States, according to a recent study. Several large population-based studies have examined differences in the prevalence of AMD between whites and...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is significantly less prevalent in American adults today than 15 years ago, according to findings from a nationally representative, population-based, cross-sectional survey of more than 5000 people. Using data from people aged 40 years or more from the 2005 to 2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination...