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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2017 Jan 30;124(5):634–643. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.12.033

Table 3.

Pooled hazard ratios of intermediate and advanced AMD according to cumulative average intake of fish

Fish Servings/wk
Median
Multivariate HR (95% CI)

Almost never 1–3 servings/mo 1 serving/wk 2–4 servings/wk ≥ 5 servings/wk p trend



Intermediate AMD
Canned tuna 0.70 1 (ref) 0.94 (0.83,1.07) 0.84 (0.73, 0.96) 0.68 (0.44,1.05) 0.005
Dark fish 0.20 1 (ref) 1.08 (0.91,1.27) 0.92 (0.74, 1.14) 0.74
Other fisha 0.58 1 (ref) 0.96 (0.85,1.09) 0.91 (0.79, 1.05) 0.91 (0.45,1.83) 0.25
Total fatty fishb 0.98 1 (ref) 0.92 (0.80,1.06) 0.95 (0.82,1.10) 0.79 (0.65,0.96) 0.61 (0.46,0.81) <.001
Advanced AMD
Canned tuna 0.70 1 (ref) 1.10 (0.96,1.26) 1.00 (0.86,1.16) 0.76 (0.46,1.23) 0.34
Dark fish 0.20 1 (ref) 1.04 (0.87,1.24) 0.98 (0.78,1.23) 0.97
Other fisha 0.58 1 (ref) 1.08 (0.94,1.23) 1.04 (0.89,1.22) 1.00 (0.44,2.24) 0.63
Total fatty fishb 0.98 1 (ref) 1.10 (0.94,1.29) 1.05 (0.90,1.24) 0.99 (0.80,1.22) 0.80 (0.59,1.08) 0.11

Multivariate models were adjusted for the same variable as in Table 2

a

Other fish were mainly white fish

b

Total fatty fish was the sum of canned tuna and dark fish. Finer intake categories were created to show detailed associations