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Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2010 Feb 13;117(6):1163–1168. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.10.043

Table 2.

Confirmed Cases of Age-related Macular Degeneration.

Endpoint	Vitamin E (N=19,697)	Placebo (N=19,724)	RR^*	(95% CI)	P-value
Visually significant AMD	117	128	0.93	0.72–1.19	0.54
Advanced AMD	29	26	1.13	0.67–1.92	0.65
AMD with or without vision loss	280	313	0.90	0.77–1.06	0.20

Abbreviations: AMD, age-related macular degeneration; RR, relative risk; CI, confidence interval

Adjusted for age and aspirin and beta carotene treatment assignment