From: Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation to prevent age-related macular degeneration
AMD-related Health Outcomes | Continuing Smokers | Quitters | Benefits of quitting | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mean | s.e | Mean | s.e | Mean | s.e |
Cases of AMD | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   Neovascular | 86 | 0.6 | 45 | 0.4 | -41 | 0.7 |
   Geographic Atrophy | 34 | 0.4 | 27 | 0.3 | -7 | 0.5 |
   Total | 120 | 0.7 | 72 | 0.5 | -48 | 0.9 |
Cases of blindness§ | 32 | 0.4 | 20 | 0.3 | -12 | 0.5 |
Blind-years | 75 | 1.2 | 54 | 1.1 | -21 | 1.6 |
QALYs | 19,168 | 10 | 20,778 | 9 | 1,611 | 14 |