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Healthy diet may lower eye disease risk: Study
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 1 (ANI): An analysis of recent high-quality research reveals that diet may affect individuals' risks related to the development and progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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Vehicle exhaust pollutants may lead to common eye condition
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 21 (ANI): Long term exposure to pollutants from vehicle exhaust linked to a heightened risk of the common eye condition, age-related macular degeneration, or AMD for short, suggest researchers.
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Eating leafy greens could prevent vision loss
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 22 (ANI): According to a new study eating vegetable nitrates, found mainly in green leafy vegetables and beetroot, could help reduce your risk of developing early-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease that causes vision loss.
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World Senior Citizens Day: AMD, leading cause of chronic blindness in elde
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 21 (ANI): Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is one of the important causes of severe visual loss in the elderly population. It constitutes to 8.7% of the world population.
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Oranges keep macular degeneration at bay
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 13 (ANI): An orange a day can keep macular degeneration away!
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Psychological stress could cause blindness
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 20 (ANI): Did you know! Psychological stress can also cause vision loss, finds a study.
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This World Health Day, let's focus on eye health
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 6 (ANI): Eye health is one of the most ignored topics in the health domain. Eye-related diseases - especially Retinal Diseases like Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Diabetic macular edema (DME) - are disabling.
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Researchers find way to stop vision loss among elderly
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 28 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have found the trigger for macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss among the elderly.
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Boosting the potency of broccoli may help treating age-related vision loss
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C., July 7 (ANI): Buck researchers have found that boosting the potency of broccoli-related compound by ten times could help treating age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a prime cause of vision loss.
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