*Centre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
†Department of Psychological Science and Statistics, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia; and
‡Singapore National Eye Centre, 11 Third Hospital Avenue, Singapore.
Reprint requests: Elaine W. Chong, MBBS, PhD, 32 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia; e-mail: [email protected]
The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study was supported by VicHealth, the Cancer Council Victoria, and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC program grant 209057, capacity-building grant 251533, and enabling grant 396414). The Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia, the American Health Assistance Foundation, the John Reid Charitable Trust and the Perpetual Trustees, Perpetual Foundation funded the ophthalmic component. CERA is a recipient of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence Grant 529923 and Operational Infrastructure Support from the Victorian Government. Support was also provided through an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship to R. H. Guymer, NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship to P. N. Baird, Wagstaff Fellowship to L. D. Robman. The sponsor or funding organization had no role in the design or conduct of this research.
None of the authors have any financial/conflicting interests to disclose.
