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AREDS Results
Results from the National Eye Institute (NEI)-sponsored Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) were announced at a news conference on Friday, October 12, held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. The news conference was webcast, via the NEI Web site.
The study, started in 1995, is a multi-centered research program with two components:
- An assessment of the risk factors, clinical course, and prognosis of age-related macular (AMD) degeneration and cataract;
- A randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effects of antioxidants and zinc on the progression of AMD, and of antioxidants on the development and progression of lens opacities (as in cataract).
For more information on
AREDS, visit
the National Eye Institute web site.
The results were published in the October issue of the Archives
of Ophthalmology.
For more information on Macular Degeneration see the publications at the NEI web site.
Contact the University of Iowa's Center for Macular Degeneration at (319)335-8270
