Of the 8 million older Americans at high risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), 1.3 million will develop advanced AMD within 5 years. However, the NEI-sponsored Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) nutritional formula could help 300,000 of those 1.3 million avoid the severe vision loss of advanced AMD over a 5-year period.
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Bressler, Neil M., Susan B. Bressler, Nathan G. Congdon, Frederick L. Ferris III, David S. Friedman, Ronald Klein, Anne S. Lindblad, Roy C. Milton, and Johanna M. Seddon . "Potential Public Health Impact of Age-Related Eye Disease Study Results: AREDS report no. 11". Archives of Ophthalmology. Vol. 121, No. 11, pp. 1621-4. [ Permalink ] |