Should we be taking B vitamins to prevent age-related macular degeneration? Not yet, but worth doing more research.

Wouldn't it be great if we could prevent the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)? This has recently been identified as one of the key research questions that people affected by AMD, and their clinicians, would like answered. AMD is important because it causes significant visual impairment—with all the loss of independence that entails—and occurs commonly in older life.

We are all living longer, and so many more of us may be affected by AMD. At the moment, we don't have very effective treatments for the disease, although treatments are improving all the time and we can now reverse some of the damage done by new blood vessels growing in the back of the eye (which is associated with this condition).

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