Life Style and Food Habits Questionnaire in the Portuguese Population Aged 55 or More

Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image

Status: Completed

Conditions: Age Related Macular Degeneration

Treatments: Behavioral: Life style and food habits questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01715870

4C-2012-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study population will be selected from the "Epidemiological study on the prevalence of Age related Macular Degeneration in Portugal" (Protocol N. CC-01-2009) where retinal photographic grading (current gold standard for AMD assessment) was performed to confirm AMD diagnostic. This study provides a population-based sample in which precise and contemporary information on the frequency of nutritional and lifestyle risk factors will be collected, enabling to evaluate whether the separate and/or joint effects of these factors, if found significant, are likely to have a major public health impact in terms of AMD.

Enrollment: 2,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects included in the Epidemiologic Study (Protocol N. CC-01-2009). (Subjects aged over 55 years-old included in health care units of Mira or Lousã).
• Written Informed Consent Form signed.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

2,000 participants in 1 patient group

Population of the "Epidemiological study on AMD".

Treatment:

Behavioral: Life style and food habits questionnaire