Ocular nutritional supplements: are their ingredients and manufacturers' claims evidence-based?

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To compare ingredients contained in top-selling brands of ocular nutritional supplements with the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) and AREDS2 formulae and investigate the validity of claims made by manufacturers of leading brands of ocular nutritional supplements.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Ophthalmology

Title: Ophthalmology

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1549-4713

ISSN (Print): 0161-6420

Publication date (Electronic): Mar 2015

Volume: 122

Issue: 3

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[1 ] Department of Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital-Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, Connecticut.

[2 ] Departments of Ophthalmology and Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

[3 ] Section of Ophthalmology, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island; Division of Ophthalmology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Electronic address: paul_greenberg@brown.edu.

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Publisher Item ID: S0161-6420(14)00949-X

DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2014.09.039

PubMed ID: 25458196

SO-VID: b685328d-0180-4d13-83d8-9ee319dab321

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