{"id":1079,"date":"2016-03-10T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2018-02-03T18:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T23:02:50","slug":"comment-on-age-related-macular-degeneration-letter-to-the-editor-parkhurst-exchange-submitted-2008-11-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Comment on &#8220;Age-related macular degeneration&#8221; (letter to the editor, Parkhurst Exchange, submitted 2008-11-25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article &#8220;Age-related macular degeneration&#8221; Oct 2008, p52) lists the risk factors for AMD as age, genetics, history of smoking, Caucasian race, and diet low in antioxidants. Not mentioned was the association between a lower risk of AMD and higher fish and\/or omega-3 fatty acid consumption.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Augood C, Chakravarthy U, Young I et al. Oily fish consumption, dietary docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid intakes, and associations with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008;88:398-406.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cho E, Hung S, Willett WC et al. Prospective study of dietary fat and the risk of age-related macular degeneration. Am J Clin Nutr. 2001;73:209-218.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SanGiovanni JP, Chew EY, Agron E et al. The relationship of dietary omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid intake with incident age-related macular degeneration: AREDS report no. 23. Arch Ophthalmol. 2008;126:1274-1279.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Seddon JM, George S, Rosner B. Cigarette smoking, fish consumption, omega-3 fatty acid intake, and associations with age-related macular degeneration: the US Twin Study of Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Arch Ophthalmol. 2006;124:995-1001.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article &#8220;Age-related macular degeneration&#8221; Oct 2008, p52) lists the risk factors for AMD as age, genetics, history of smoking, Caucasian race, and diet low in antioxidants. Not mentioned was the association between a lower risk of AMD and higher fish and\/or omega-3 fatty acid consumption. Augood C, Chakravarthy U,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[381,382,14],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-amd","tag-macular-degeneration","tag-omega-3s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}