For more than two decades, researchers have sought to identify "risk factors" for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the major cause of irreversible vision loss in the western world, particularly in the elderly.

The principle features and benefits of the breakthrough Sightrisk AMD Calculator are:

• It provides instant results for the patient and professional to discuss together.
• The likelihood of developing visually consequential AMD (i.e. AMD which affects vision) and the potential to reduce that risk can be clearly explained to patients using graphs that show ‘before and after’ scenarios.
• The Sightrisk AMD Calculatoris designed by a team of experts across a number of disciplines, including ophthalmology, science, optometry, mathematics, physics and statistics.

The Sightrisk AMD Calculator calculates an individual patient’s risk of developing visually consequential AMD at a future date.  This is done in realtime as part of your consultation with a healthcare professional.  This typically might last about 15 minutes. 

The Sightrisk AMD Calculator is capable of providing an estimate of the overall risk of an individual patient developing visually consequentially AMD at any given age between 55 and 100 years. 

Using an easy-to-understand graph, you can see immediately how you can reduce the risk of developing this blinding disease over time if you adopt your healthcare professional’s recommendations such as the cessation of smoking and/or by taking dietary anti-oxidant supplements. 

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