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Dietary Fats And Macular Degeneration, Victoria M. Flood
Dietary Fats And Macular Degeneration, Victoria M. Flood
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Atherosclerosis in the blood vision and common eye diseases do not support any adverse vessels of the eye has been in non-institutionalised residents, associations between high proposed as a possible 49 years or older, living in Blue intakes of dietary fats or mechanism underlying macular Mountains area, west of Sydney. sub-types of fats and the degeneration, which has raised Dietary data were collected from incidence of either early or the possibility that different 2895 people at baseline using late age-related macular dietary fats may increase or a validated food frequency degeneration. However, this decrease risk. Several recent questionnaire. Incidence of …
Facts On Fats: What Are The Implications?, Jie J. Wang, Victoria M. Flood, Paul Mitchell
Facts On Fats: What Are The Implications?, Jie J. Wang, Victoria M. Flood, Paul Mitchell
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
We are delighted to see a cross-discipline review article by Chong, Sinclair and Guymer appearing in this issue of CEO (‘Facts on fat’, pp. 464–471). As the authors anticipate, this review provides valuable information to readers of the Journal, who are mostly ophthalmologists. We also believe that this cross-discipline review article will enable readers to better understand the roles of dietary fats, and be in a position to convey better quality information to their patients. Given that a possible association between dietary fatty acid intake and age-related macular degeneration is a current hot topic in the ophthalmic literature, this review …