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Visual Impairment and quality of life in the Older European Population, the EUREYE study.

Seland JH, Vingerling JR, Augood CA, Bentham G, Chakravarthy U, Dejong PT, Rahu M, Soubrane G, Tomazzoli L, Topouzis F, Fletcher AE.

Acta Ophthalmol. 2009 Nov 19. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 19925518 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

Prevalence of early and late age-related macular degeneration in India: the INDEYE Study.

Krishnan T, Ravindran RD, Murthy GV, Vashist P, Fitzpatrick KE, Thulasiraj RD, John N, Maraini G, Camparini M, Chakravarthy U, Fletcher AE.

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2009 Aug 20. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 19696177 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

Survival of community-dwelling older people: the effect of cognitive impairment and social engagement.

Sampson EL, Bulpitt CJ, Fletcher AE.

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Jun;57(6):985-91.PMID: 19507292 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Associations between chronic kidney disease and age-related macular degeneration.

Nitsch D, Evans J, Roderick PJ, Smeeth L, Fletcher AE.

Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2009 May-Jun;16(3):181-6.PMID: 19437313 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Association of diabetes with age-related macular degeneration in the EUREYE study.

Topouzis F, Anastasopoulos E, Augood C, Bentham GC, Chakravarthy U, de Jong PT, Rahu M, Seland J, Soubrane G, Tomazzoli L, Vingerling JR, Vioque J, Young IS, Fletcher AE.

Br J Ophthalmol. 2009 Aug;93(8):1037-41. Epub 2009 May 7.PMID: 19429584 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

CKD and mortality risk in older people: a community-based population study in the United Kingdom.

Roderick PJ, Atkins RJ, Smeeth L, Mylne A, Nitsch DD, Hubbard RB, Bulpitt CJ, Fletcher AE.

Am J Kidney Dis. 2009 Jun;53(6):950-60. Epub 2009 Apr 25.PMID: 19394727 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes and its associated health problems in a community-dwelling elderly population.

Hewitt J, Smeeth L, Bulpitt CJ, Fletcher AE.

Diabet Med. 2009 Apr;26(4):370-6.PMID: 19388966 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Baseline characteristics of participants in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET).

Bulpitt CJ, Beckett NS, Peters R, Banya W, Liu L, Wang JG, Stoyanovsky V, Dumitrascu D, Nikitin Y, Staessen JA, Burch L, Fletcher AE.

Blood Press. 2009;18(1-2):17-22.PMID: 19353407 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Controversy over "contradiction": Should randomized trials always trump observational studies?

Fletcher AE.

Am J Ophthalmol. 2009 Mar;147(3):384-6. No abstract available. PMID: 19217953 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Risk of admission to a nursing home among older people with visual impairment in Great Britain.

Evans JR, Smeeth L, Fletcher AE.

Arch Ophthalmol. 2008 Oct;126(10):1428-33.PMID: 18852422 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Sunlight exposure, antioxidants, and age-related macular degeneration.

Fletcher AE, Bentham GC, Agnew M, Young IS, Augood C, Chakravarthy U, de Jong PT, Rahu M, Seland J, Soubrane G, Tomazzoli L, Topouzis F, Vingerling JR, Vioque J.

Arch Ophthalmol. 2008 Oct;126(10):1396-403.PMID: 18852418 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Hospital admissions in older people with visual impairment in Britain.

Evans JR, Smeeth L, Fletcher AE.

BMC Ophthalmol. 2008 Sep 11;8:16.PMID: 18786264 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Oily fish consumption, dietary docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid intakes, and associations with neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Augood C, Chakravarthy U, Young I, Vioque J, de Jong PT, Bentham G, Rahu M, Seland J, Soubrane G, Tomazzoli L, Topouzis F, Vingerling JR, Fletcher AE.

Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Aug;88(2):398-406.PMID: 18689376 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Plasma homocysteine, but not folate or vitamin B-12, predicts mortality in older people in the United Kingdom.

Dangour AD, Breeze E, Clarke R, Shetty PS, Uauy R, Fletcher AE.

J Nutr. 2008 Jun;138(6):1121-8.PMID: 18492844 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Blood levels of vitamin C, carotenoids and retinol are inversely associated with cataract in a North Indian population.

Dherani M, Murthy GV, Gupta SK, Young IS, Maraini G, Camparini M, Price GM, John N, Chakravarthy U, Fletcher AE.

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2008 Aug;49(8):3328-35. Epub 2008 Apr 17.PMID: 18421094 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Treatment of hypertension in patients 80 years of age or older.

Beckett NS, Peters R, Fletcher AE, Staessen JA, Liu L, Dumitrascu D, Stoyanovsky V, Antikainen RL, Nikitin Y, Anderson C, Belhani A, Forette F, Rajkumar C, Thijs L, Banya W, Bulpitt CJ; HYVET Study Group.

N Engl J Med. 2008 May 1;358(18):1887-98. Epub 2008 Mar 31.PMID: 18378519 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Detecting chronic kidney disease in older people; what are the implications?

Roderick PJ, Atkins RJ, Smeeth L, Nitsch DM, Hubbard RB, Fletcher AE, Bulpitt CJ.

Age Ageing. 2008 Mar;37(2):179-86. Epub 2007 Dec 14. Erratum in: Age Ageing. 2009 Sep;38(5):638. Flectcher, Astrid E [corrected to Fletcher, Astrid E]. PMID: 18083723 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Years of sunlight exposure and cataract: a case-control study in a Mediterranean population.

Pastor-Valero M, Fletcher AE, de Stavola BL, Chaqués-Alepúz V.

BMC Ophthalmol. 2007 Nov 26;7:18.PMID: 18039367 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Cardiovascular disease and hypertension are strong risk factors for choroidal neovascularization.

Hogg RE, Woodside JV, Gilchrist SE, Graydon R, Fletcher AE, Chan W, Knox A, Cartmill B, Chakravarthy U.

Ophthalmology. 2008 Jun;115(6):1046-1052.e2. Epub 2007 Oct 22.PMID: 17953990 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The epidemiology of severe traumatic brain injury among persons 65 years of age and older in Oklahoma, 1992-2003.

Fletcher AE, Khalid S, Mallonee S.

Brain Inj. 2007 Jun;21(7):691-9.PMID: 17653943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Novel catalysts for dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other chlorinated aromatics.

Fletcher AE, Moss J, Cowley AR, O'Hare D.

Chem Commun (Camb). 2007 Jul 28;(28):2971-3. Epub 2007 Jun 22.PMID: 17622448 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

A case-control study of drug risk factors for age-related macular degeneration.

Douglas IJ, Cook C, Chakravarthy U, Hubbard R, Fletcher AE, Smeeth L.

Ophthalmology. 2007 Jun;114(6):1164-9.PMID: 17544775 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Cigarette smoking and age-related macular degeneration in the EUREYE Study.

Chakravarthy U, Augood C, Bentham GC, de Jong PT, Rahu M, Seland J, Soubrane G, Tomazzoli L, Topouzis F, Vingerling JR, Vioque J, Young IS, Fletcher AE.

Ophthalmology. 2007 Jun;114(6):1157-63. Epub 2007 Mar 6.PMID: 17337063 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Prevalence of early and late age-related macular degeneration in a rural population in northern India: the INDEYE feasibility study.

Gupta SK, Murthy GV, Morrison N, Price GM, Dherani M, John N, Fletcher AE, Chakravarthy U.

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007 Mar;48(3):1007-11.PMID: 17325139 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Depression and anxiety in visually impaired older people.

Evans JR, Fletcher AE, Wormald RP.

Ophthalmology. 2007 Feb;114(2):283-8.PMID: 17270678 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Prevalence of lens opacities in North India: the INDEYE feasibility study.

Murthy GV, Gupta SK, Maraini G, Camparini M, Price GM, Dherani M, John N, Chakravarthy U, Fletcher AE.

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007 Jan;48(1):88-95.PMID: 17197521 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Fracture risk and the use of a diuretic (indapamide SR) +/- perindopril: a substudy of the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET).

Bulpitt CJ, Peters R, Staessen JA, Thijs L, De Vernejoul MC, Fletcher AE, Beckett NS.

Trials. 2006 Dec 19;7:33.PMID: 17177983 [PubMed]Related articlesFree article

A randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on cognitive and retinal function in cognitively healthy older people: the Older People And n-3 Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (OPAL) study protocol [ISRCTN72331636].

Dangour AD, Clemens F, Elbourne D, Fasey N, Fletcher AE, Hardy P, Holder GE, Huppert FA, Knight R, Letley L, Richards M, Truesdale A, Vickers M, Uauy R.

Nutr J. 2006 Aug 31;5:20.PMID: 16945130 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Weight, shape, and mortality risk in older persons: elevated waist-hip ratio, not high body mass index, is associated with a greater risk of death.

Price GM, Uauy R, Breeze E, Bulpitt CJ, Fletcher AE.

Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 Aug;84(2):449-60.PMID: 16895897 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Is the NEI-VFQ-25 a useful tool in identifying visual impairment in an elderly population?

Owen CG, Rudnicka AR, Smeeth L, Evans JR, Wormald RP, Fletcher AE.

BMC Ophthalmol. 2006 Jun 9;6:24.PMID: 16764714 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Prevalence of age-related maculopathy in older Europeans: the European Eye Study (EUREYE).

Augood CA, Vingerling JR, de Jong PT, Chakravarthy U, Seland J, Soubrane G, Tomazzoli L, Topouzis F, Bentham G, Rahu M, Vioque J, Young IS, Fletcher AE.

Arch Ophthalmol. 2006 Apr;124(4):529-35.PMID: 16606879 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Cause-specific mortality in old age in relation to body mass index in middle age and in old age: follow-up of the Whitehall cohort of male civil servants.

Breeze E, Clarke R, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG, Fletcher AE.

Int J Epidemiol. 2006 Feb;35(1):169-78. Epub 2005 Nov 12.PMID: 16284405 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Cause-specific visual impairment and mortality: results from a population-based study of older people in the United Kingdom.

Thiagarajan M, Evans JR, Smeeth L, Wormald RP, Fletcher AE.

Arch Ophthalmol. 2005 Oct;123(10):1397-403.PMID: 16219731 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

A case control study of age related macular degeneration and use of statins.

Smeeth L, Cook C, Chakravarthy U, Hubbard R, Fletcher AE.

Br J Ophthalmol. 2005 Sep;89(9):1171-5.PMID: 16113375 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Are older people dying of depression? Findings from the Medical Research Council trial of the assessment and management of older people in the community.

Adamson JA, Price GM, Breeze E, Bulpitt CJ, Fletcher AE.

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005 Jul;53(7):1128-32.PMID: 16108929 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Imidazole antibiotics inhibit the nitric oxide dioxygenase function of microbial flavohemoglobin.

Helmick RA, Fletcher AE, Gardner AM, Gessner CR, Hvitved AN, Gustin MC, Gardner PR.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 May;49(5):1837-43.PMID: 15855504 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Hormone replacement therapy and cataract: a population-based case-control study.

Aina FO, Smeeth L, Hubbard R, Hurt LS, Fletcher AE.

Eye (Lond). 2006 Apr;20(4):417-22.PMID: 15846385 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The development of the Indian vision function questionnaire: field testing and psychometric evaluation.

Gupta SK, Viswanath K, Thulasiraj RD, Murthy GV, Lamping DL, Smith SC, Donoghue M, Fletcher AE.

Br J Ophthalmol. 2005 May;89(5):621-7.PMID: 15834097 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

28,000 Cases of age related macular degeneration causing visual loss in people aged 75 years and above in the United Kingdom may be attributable to smoking.

Evans JR, Fletcher AE, Wormald RP.

Br J Ophthalmol. 2005 May;89(5):550-3.PMID: 15834082 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Respiratory symptoms in older people and their association with mortality.

Hewitt J, Smeeth L, Bulpitt CJ, Tulloch AJ, Fletcher AE.

Thorax. 2005 Apr;60(4):331-4.PMID: 15790990 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The development of the Indian vision function questionnaire: questionnaire content.

Murthy GV, Gupta SK, Thulasiraj RD, Viswanath K, Donoghue EM, Fletcher AE.

Br J Ophthalmol. 2005 Apr;89(4):498-503.PMID: 15774932 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Area deprivation, social class, and quality of life among people aged 75 years and over in Britain.

Breeze E, Jones DA, Wilkinson P, Bulpitt CJ, Grundy C, Latif AM, Fletcher AE.

Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Apr;34(2):276-83. Epub 2005 Jan 19.PMID: 15659477 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Population-based multidimensional assessment of older people in UK general practice: a cluster-randomised factorial trial.

Fletcher AE, Price GM, Ng ES, Stirling SL, Bulpitt CJ, Breeze E, Nunes M, Jones DA, Latif A, Fasey NM, Vickers MR, Tulloch AJ.

Lancet. 2004 Nov 6-12;364(9446):1667-77.PMID: 15530627 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Validity of the Clock-Drawing Test as a screening tool for cognitive impairment in the elderly.

Nishiwaki Y, Breeze E, Smeeth L, Bulpitt CJ, Peters R, Fletcher AE.

Am J Epidemiol. 2004 Oct 15;160(8):797-807.PMID: 15466502 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Micronutrient supplementation in later life: limited evidence for benefit.

Dangour AD, Sibson VL, Fletcher AE.

J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2004 Jul;59(7):659-73. Review.PMID: 15304530 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Association of quality of life in old age in Britain with socioeconomic position: baseline data from a randomised controlled trial.

Breeze E, Jones DA, Wilkinson P, Latif AM, Bulpitt CJ, Fletcher AE.

J Epidemiol Community Health. 2004 Aug;58(8):667-73.PMID: 15252069 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Effects of immediate versus delayed antihypertensive therapy on outcome in the Systolic Hypertension in Europe Trial.

Staessen JA, Thijisq L, Fagard R, Celis H, Birkenhäger WH, Bulpitt CJ, de Leeuw PW, Fletcher AE, Forette F, Leonetti G, McCormack P, Nachev C, O'Brien E, Rodicio JL, Rosenfeld J, Sarti C, Tuomilehto J, Webster J, Yodfat Y, Zanchetti A; Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) Trial Investigators.

J Hypertens. 2004 Apr;22(4):847-57.PMID: 15126928 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Trends in influenza vaccination uptake among people aged over 74 years, 1997-2000: survey of 73 general practices in Britain.

Breeze E, Mangtani P, Fletcher AE, Price GM, Kovats S, Roberts J.

BMC Fam Pract. 2004 Apr 20;5:8.PMID: 15099402 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Age-related macular degeneration causing visual impairment in people 75 years or older in Britain: an add-on study to the Medical Research Council Trial of Assessment and Management of Older People in the Community.

Evans JR, Fletcher AE, Wormald RP.

Ophthalmology. 2004 Mar;111(3):513-7.PMID: 15019328 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Causes of visual impairment in people aged 75 years and older in Britain: an add-on study to the MRC Trial of Assessment and Management of Older People in the Community.

Evans JR, Fletcher AE, Wormald RP; MRC Trial of Assessment and Management of Older People in the Community.

Br J Ophthalmol. 2004 Mar;88(3):365-70.PMID: 14977771 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article