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Scientific support for AMD Prevention
Scientific studies are now emerging in support of AMD prevention. There is an increasingly accepted need to identify the at-risk patient and reduce their risk of blindness before it develops: the Sightrisk approach.
The recent publication by JA Mares et al, Healthy Lifestyles Related to Subsequent Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, investigated the relationships between lifestyle behaviours of diet, smoking and physical activity, and the subsequent prevalence of AMD, and stated that "Modifying lifestyles might reduce risk for early AMD as much as 3-fold, lowering the risk for advanced AMD in a person's lifetime and the social and economic costs of AMD to society."
See also:
- Risk Factors for Age-Related Maculopathy, Connell P et al, 2011
- Update on Modifiable Risk Factors for Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Nolan JM et al, 2011
- Reducing the Genetic Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration With Dietary Antioxidants, Zinc, and -3 Fatty Acids: The Rotterdam Study, Ho L et al, 2011