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Nutritional supplements for age-related macular degeneration.

Do Eye Vitamins Work?


Patients with the Wet and Dry forms of Macular Degeneration may benefit from Macular Health vitamins. Vitamins decrease the risk of vision loss, which has been shown not only in the AREDS study, but also in other studies.

AREDS STUDY

The Age Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) was a national trial sponsored by the National Eye Institute, one of the federal governments National Institutes of Health. This trial found that high levels of antioxidants and zinc reduced the risk of advanced Age Related Macular Degeneration by about twenty five percent. The same nutrients also reduced the risk of vision loss caused by advanced macular degeneration by about nineteen percent. The majority of the reduction of vision loss and advanced macular degeneration was due to zinc.

The specific daily amounts per tablet were:
  1. 125mg Vitamin C
  2. 100 IU Vitamin E
  3. 7160 IU Vitamin A
  4. 17.4mg of Zinc as Zinc oxide
  5. 2mg of copper

The AREDS study was published in 2001 and the article stated that there was a range in the dosages of antioxidants and Zinc as listed above due to loss of potency of the vitamin tablets due to shelf time and the variability of the number of tablets taken per day. The American Academy of Ophthalmology now recommends (based on the AREDS study) that patients with significant Macular Degeneration take nutritional supplements as listed in the AREDS study to reduce the risk of vision loss.


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