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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

AMD prophylaxis: What do vitamins and trace

In recent years, in large intervention studies (ARED study) the possibility of progression of early AMD to late AMD visusmindernden investigated. This was the one in the 10-year progression rates for different groups of patients with early AMD by different ARED scores with increasing risk probabilities are correlated (soft drusen per eye score 1, hyperpigmentation score 1 per eye, unilateral late AMD 2 scores, as this rresultiert possibility of an individual score of 0-4, 10-year progression-score data ARED 0 = 1.1%, score 1 = 8.5%, score 2 = 26.8%, score 3 = 54.2%, score 4 = 72.1%). When the scores 2-4, these rates of progression through the ARED-medication, on average, in 10-year to 10%.

This medication is for these high-risk patients, therefore, recommended.Another was in nutrition studies that protective effect of omega-3-fatty acids can be observed.Moreover, even the intake of lutein and zeaxanthin in AMD's protective. This is currently in a further intervention studies (ARED-2) were examined.

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