Table 1.

Selection criteria of studies in the systematic review

Inclusion criteria
1) Community–based study of AMD in China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan)
2) Studies conducted to examine the epidemiology of AMD
3) Studies reported numerical prevalence measure of AMD
Exclusion criteria
1) Multiple publications of the same study
2) Studies with no professional assessment methods or relied on self–reported diagnoses
3) Studies that were conducted in a population with characteristics that were clearly unrepresentative, eg, visual impaired population, diabetes population
4) Studies with inconsistencies between reported methods and presented results