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Current Smoking Linked to Age-Related Macular Degeneration
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Title Current Smoking Linked to Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/568868?src=rss
Description In the Beaver Dam Eye Study, current smoking was linked with an approximately 45% higher odds of developing age-related macular degeneration for 15 years vs never smoking. Medscape Medical News
Category Articles > Internal Medicine
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Date Jan 18, 2008
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