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Dr. David Maberley, MD, MSc. (Epid), FRCSC, Ophthalmologist : How Wet Macular Degeneration is Treated Compared to Dry Macular Degeneration
The dry macular degeneration form tends to be managed right now with antioxidant vitamins. And there’s a formulation that has been developed through the National Institute of Health in the United States.
It was a large, properly designed clinical trial that give us a recommendation for certain vitamins. And those vitamins are Vitamin C and E, zinc, usually with some copper supplementation, so you don’t get anemia with too much zinc, and then something called lutein or zeaxanthin, which are carotenoid chemicals that protect the macula.
Dr. David Maberley, MD, MSc. (Epid), FRCSC, Ophthalmologist, discusses macular degeneration and its symptoms.
Dr. David Maberley, MD, MSc. (Epid), FRCSC, Ophthalmologist : What is Macular Degeneration and How Do You Know if You Have It? Dr. David Maberley, MD, MSc. (Epid), FRCSC, Ophthalmologist, discusses macular degeneration and its symptoms.
Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss in North America.
It affects probably about 10 percent of people over the age of 75, and so it’s the major cause of vision loss that we deal with as ophthalmologists. It is a very common condition from the standpoint of symptomatology that patients experience at that age.
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