• Association of lipid-lowering drugs and antidiabetic drugs with age-related macular degeneration: A meta-analysis in Europeans 

      Mauschitz, Matthias M.; Verzijden, Timo; Schuster, Alexander K.; Elbaz, Hisham; Pfeiffer, Norbert; Khawaja, Anthony; Luben, Robert N.; Foster, Paul J.; Rauscher, Franziska G.; Wirkner, Kerstin; Kirsten, Toralf; Jonas, Jost B.; Bikbov, Mukharram M.; Hogg, Ruth; Peto, Tunde; Cougnard-Grégoire, Audrey; Bertelsen, Geir; Erke, Maja Gran; Topouzis, Fotis; Giannoulis, Dimitrios A.; Brandl, Caroline; Heid, Iris M.; Creuzot-Garcher, Catherine P.; Gabrielle, Pierre-Henry; Hense, Hans-Werner; Pauleikhoff, Daniel; Barreto, Patricia; Coimbra, Rita; Piermarocchi, Stefano; Daien, Vincent; Holz, Frank G.; Delcourt, Cecile; Finger, Robert P. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2022-11-07)
      <p><i>Background/aims</i> To investigate the association of commonly used systemic medications with prevalent age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the general population. <p><i>Methods</i> We included 38 694 adults from 14 population-based and hospital-based studies from the European Eye Epidemiology consortium. We examined associations between the use of systemic medications and any prevalent ...
    • Association of Systemic Medication Use with Glaucoma and Intraocular Pressure: The European Eye Epidemiology Consortium 

      Vergroesen, Joëlle E.; Schuster, Alexander K.; Stuart, Kelsey V.; Asefa, Nigus G.; Cougnard-Grégoire, Audrey; Delcourt, Cécile; Schweitzer, Cédric; Barreto, Patrícia; Coimbra, Rita; Foster, Paul J.; Luben, Robert N.; Pfeiffer, Norbert; Stingl, Julia V.; Kirsten, Toralf; Rauscher, Franziska G.; Wirkner, Kerstin; Jansonius, Nomdo M.; Arnould, Louis; Creuzot-Garcher, Catherine P.; Stricker, Bruno H.; Keskini, Christina; Topouzis, Fotis; Bertelsen, Geir; Eggen, Anne Elise; Bikbov, Mukharram M.; Jonas, Jost B.; Klaver, Caroline C.W.; Ramdas, Wishal D.; Khawaja, Anthony P. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-06)
      Purpose - To investigate the association of commonly used systemic medications with glaucoma and intraocular pressure (IOP) in the European population.<p> <p>Design - Meta-analysis of 11 population-based cohort studies of the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium.<p> <p>Participants - The glaucoma analyses included 143 240 participants and the IOP analyses included 47 177 participants.<p> <p>Methods ...
    • Prevalence of refractive error in Europe: the European Eye Epidemiology (E(3)) Consortium 

      Williams, Katie M.; Verhoeven, Virginie J.M.; Cumberland, Phillippa; Bertelsen, Geir; Wolfram, Christian; Buitendijk, Gabriëlle H.S.; Hofman, Albert; Van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Vingerling, Johannes R.; Kuijpers, Robert W.A.M.; Höhn, René; Mirshahi, Alireza; Khawaja, Anthony P.; Luben, Robert N.; Erke, Maja Gran; Hanno, Therese von; Mahroo, Omar; Hogg, Ruth; Gieger, Christian; Cougnard-Grégoire, Audrey; Anastasopoulos, Eleftherios; Bron, Alain; Dartigues, Jean-François; Korobelnik, Jean-François; Creuzot-Garcher, Catherine; Topouzis, Fotis; Delcourt, Cecile; Rahi, Jugnoo; Meitinger, Thomas; Fletcher, Astrid; Foster, Paul J.; Pfeiffer, Norbert; Klaver, Caroline C.W.; Hammond, Christopher J. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-03-18)
      To estimate the prevalence of refractive error in adults across Europe. Refractive data (mean spherical equivalent) collected between 1990 and 2013 from fifteen population-based cohort and cross-sectional studies of the European Eye Epidemiology (E3 ) Consortium were combined in a random effects meta-analysis stratified by 5-year age intervals and gender. Participants were excluded if they were ...