Prevalence of myopic maculopathy in the German population: results from the Gutenberg health study.

Susanne HopfChristina KorbStefan NickelsAndreas SchulzThomas MünzelPhilipp S WildMatthias MichalIrene SchmidtmannKarl J LacknerNorbert PfeifferAlexander K Schuster

Published in: The British journal of ophthalmology (2019)

The prevalence of myopic maculopathy in the German population was 0.5%, and 10% in high myopic participants, aged 35-74 years. These population-based data are the first in Europe. Myopic maculopathy was related to severity of myopic refractive error and age.

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