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To the Editor: The review of age-related macular degeneration by Jager et al. (June 12 issue)¹ does not refer to an editorial accompanying the report of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) in the Archives of Ophthalmology in 2001 and two subsequent letters,^2,3,4 all of which criticized the study analysis for setting aside a negative result in which dietary supplementation with high doses of vitamins and minerals was ineffective and instead reporting on a subgroup in which the result was positive. The investigators argued that the excluded patients had too few end points to be eligible for treatment. However, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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