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Calculating Risk

Benefits

Results graph and advice

The results graph clearly shows the individual's current predicted risk of developing AMD, and their optimised risk, i.e. what their risk would be if they were to reduce their lifestyle and environmental risk factors.

Personalised results

The results generated are based on the individual's specific answers, and so the results graph and advice are tailored to each individual. Sightrisk provides a personal prevention strategy to reduce an individual's risk of developing AMD.

The results also give a list of specific risk factors that the individual can modify to actively reduce their risk of developing blindness.

Online risk assessment

The Sightrisk AMD Calculator provides instant results and a basis for advice for the patient and professional to discuss together. Because it is an online tool, any updates and results of new and significant research publications can be easily accommodated.

Who is at risk of developing AMD?

Sightrisk AMD Calculator

The Sightrisk AMD Calculator calculates an individual's predicted risk of developing visually consequential AMD in later life, based on the known and established risk factors for this eye disease. The Calculator assesses the patient's risk based on their ocular and non-ocular risk factors, and generates a predicted percentage risk from age 55 to 100 as a line graph. This consultation with the eyecare professional or optometric assistant typically takes under 10 minutes. 

Because it is an online tool, the results are generated immediately. Based on the risk factors entered into the Calculator, the results are specific to each individual, and a personalised prevention strategy is provided to help the patient actively reduce their risk in a timely manner. AMD is an age-related disease, but its causes are cumulative. How we live now can affect our risk in later life. The information inputted online into the Sightrisk AMD Calculator generates an evidence-based predicted risk as a percentage. Using this percentage as a guide, the healthcare professional will be in a position to recommend a personalized managementplan that will reduce the patient’s risk of suffering from AMD at a later date.