Survey of macular pigment and skin carotenoid optical density in patients with age-related macular degeneration

Survey of macular pigment and skin carotenoid optical density in patients with age-related macular degeneration - Macular pigment in patients with age-related macular degeneration

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000057173

Enrollment

234

Registered

2025-02-28

Start date

2025-02-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

age-related macular degeneration

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in one eye and the fellow eye unaffected by AMD (either with a normal fundus or in the early stages of AMD), as well as patients without macular diseases, where the eye under examination (either the AMD-unaffected eye or the normal fundus eye) has undergone cataract surgery or has only minimal cataract.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1) Individuals receiving dietary counseling due to chronic illnesses 2) Individuals with macular diseases other than age-related macular degeneration 3) Individuals with opacities in the cornea or other ocular media

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Macular pigment optical density	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Skin carotenoid level	—

Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactMituo Kimata

Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital Clinical research center

m-kimata@sis.seirei.or.jp053-474-2222

Outcome results