June 2015
Volume 56, Issue 7
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2015
Validating Two Age-Related Macular Degeneration Classification Scales in A Population-based Cohort.
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Gerald Liew
    Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Nichole Joachim
    Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • George Burlutsky
    Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Paul Mitchell
    Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Jie Jin Wang
    Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Gerald Liew, None; Nichole Joachim, None; George Burlutsky, None; Paul Mitchell, None; Jie Jin Wang, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2015, Vol.56, 3795. doi:
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      Gerald Liew, Nichole Joachim, George Burlutsky, Paul Mitchell, Jie Jin Wang; Validating Two Age-Related Macular Degeneration Classification Scales in A Population-based Cohort.. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2015;56(7 ):3795.

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Abstract
 
Purpose
 

There are multiple classification systems for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), mostly based on patients from clinical trials. We validated two AMD classification systems using 5-year incident late AMD data from the Blue Mountains Eye Study (BMES) cohort, and compared the results with published estimates from the Age-Related Eye Diseases Study (AREDS) clinical trial.

 
Methods
 

Participants of the BMES were aged 40-99 years at baseline, n=2134; participants of the AREDS clinical trial were aged 55-80 years, n=3640. AMD lesions in the BMES were graded from stereoscopic fundus photographs and classified according to:1)AREDS Simplified Severity Scale, and 2)Basic Clinical Classification Scale. 5-year late AMD incidence rates (defined as the presence of geographic atrophy or choroidal neovascularization in either eye of subjects without late AMD in any eye at baseline) were presented by categories of both classifications and compared with published estimates from the AREDS population.

 
Results
 

The Simplified Severity Scale calculates a risk score based on the presence of large drusen and pigment abnormalities in both eyes.(Table 1) The Basic Clinical Classification Scale categorizes these lesions as Intermediate AMD regardless of bilaterality. There were 32 patients with incident late AMD in either eye in BMES, and 316 in AREDS. The Simplified Scale classified similar proportions of participants who developed incident late AMD in both the BMES and AREDS samples for levels 1, 2, and 4, with the exception of level 3 (Fig 1A). The Basic Clinical Classification Scale categorized consistently higher late AMD incidence rates across all risk levels in the BMES compared to AREDS (Fig 1B).

 
Conclusions
 

The AREDS Simplified Scale classifies late AMD risk levels similarly when applied to population-based and clinical trial samples. The Basic Clinical Classification resulted in higher incidence rates in all categories when applied to population-based compared to clinical trial samples. The choice of classification system may need to take into account the study population as different incidence rates may be reported.  

 
Table 1. Definitions and Classification Scales.
 
Table 1. Definitions and Classification Scales.
 
 
Figure 1A. Age-Related Eye Diseases Study (AREDS) Simplified Severity Scale and 5-year Incident Late Age-Related Macular Degeneration.(AMD) 1B. Basic Clinical Classification Scale and 5-year Incident Late AMD.
 
Figure 1A. Age-Related Eye Diseases Study (AREDS) Simplified Severity Scale and 5-year Incident Late Age-Related Macular Degeneration.(AMD) 1B. Basic Clinical Classification Scale and 5-year Incident Late AMD.

 
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