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Antioxidant Vitamins and Zinc Reduce Risk of Vision Loss from Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Relevant excerpts from:
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, National Eye Institute
NIH News Release, October 12, 2001
Source:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2001/nei-12.htm
Antioxidant Vitamins and Zinc Reduce Risk of Vision Loss from Age-Related Macular Degeneration
High levels of antioxidants and zinc significantly reduce the risk of advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and its associated vision loss.
Scientists found that people at high risk of developing advanced stages of AMD, a leading cause of vision loss,
lowered their risk by about 25 percent when treated with a high-dose combination of vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and zinc. In the same high risk group - which includes people with intermediate AMD, or advanced AMD in one eye but not the other eye - the nutrients reduced the risk of vision loss caused by advanced AMD by about 19 percent. For those study participants who had either no AMD or early AMD, the nutrients did not provide an apparent benefit. The clinical trial - called the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) - was sponsored by the National Eye Institute (NEI), one of the Federal government's National Institutes of Health.
"This is an exciting discovery because, for people at high risk for developing advanced AMD,
these nutrients are the first effective treatment to slow the progression of the disease," said Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., director of the NEI. "AMD is a leading cause of visual impairment and blindness in Americans 65 years of age and older. Currently, treatment for advanced AMD is quite limited.
These nutrients will delay the progression to advanced AMD in people who are at high risk - those with intermediate AMD in one or both eyes, or those with advanced AMD in one eye already.
"Previous studies have suggested that people who have diets rich in green, leafy vegetables have a lower risk of developing AMD," said Frederick Ferris, MD, director of clinical research at the NEI and chairman of the AREDS. "However, the
high levels of nutrients that were evaluated in the AREDS
are very difficult to achieve from diet alone.
"Almost two-thirds of AREDS participants chose to take a daily multivitamin in addition to their assigned study treatment," Dr. Ferris said. "The AREDS also showed that, even with a daily multivitamin, people at high risk for developing advanced AMD can lower the risk of vision loss by adding a formulation with the same high levels of antioxidants and zinc used in the study."
Those taking
"antioxidants plus zinc" had the lowest risk of developing advanced stages of AMD and its accompanying visual loss.
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