Age is the most significant risk factor for macular degeneration. Being 50 or older increases your chance of developing age-related macular degeneration. Studies have shown that you have a slightly ...

a Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, b Division of Neurology, Sunnybrook Hospital, University of ...

Is there a link between age-related macular degeneration and Alzheimer's disease? Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a common eye condition and also a leading cause of vision loss among ...

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is one of the most important vision-threatening complications secondary to pathological myopia (PM). In the last 20 years, there have been rapid advances in the ...

The Amsler grid tests the condition of the center of the retina or "macula". It is a good test for screening for the development of "wet" macular degeneration in patients with "dry" macular ...

University Eye Hospital, Department for Pathophysiology of Vision and Neuro-Ophthalmology, Tuebingen, Germany Dr Ulf Kretschmann, University Eye Hospital, Department for Pathophysiology of Vision and ...

Common condition causing vision loss affects among older adults Lifestyle choices like diet and smoking also play a role Macular degeneration leads to blurred or distorted vision While vision loss is ...