AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION IS A LEADING CAUSE OF BLINDNESS
...NOW REACHING EPIDEMIC LEVELS

What is Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)?

This is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in people over 50 years of age, affecting an estimated 500,000 people in the UK and over 12 million sufferers across Europe.

This eye disease is particularly frustrating because it results in a loss of central vision and you are therefore unable to read, watch TV, recognise faces or drive. Unfortunately, by the time some people are diagnosed, the disease may have been developing for 20 years or more.

This eye disease is particularly frustrating because it results in a loss of central vision and you are therefore unable to read, watch TV, recognise faces or drive. Unfortunately, by the time some people are diagnosed, the disease may have been developing for 20 years or more.

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What can be done to prevent AMD developing?

Some of the risk factors for AMD are modifiable, people can stop smoking cigarettes, improve their diet and with new scientific research,many scienctists believe that people with low pigment levels may be at risk later in life.

It has been advised that people have their macular pigment levels checked from the age of 20 years onwards. Any protection that macular pigment may provide against AMD will need to be exerted in the young to middle aged. This is important, as the damaged caused by blue light and free radicals takes place during a person's lifetime (between the age of 20 and 60 years) and not just in their later years.

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