08/10/2009 - News
Macular Degeneration Foundation Posts Special Report
By: June Chen, MD
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AMD is a medical condition that usually affects older adults, resulting in a loss of central vision due to damage to the retina. AMD leads to difficulty with reading or recognizing faces, and it may even lead to blindness. Geographic atrophy (GA) is an advanced type of age-related macular degeneration that affects approximately 3.5 percent of the U.S. population aged 75 and older. Among adults over the age of 90, 22 percent likely have GA. Unfortunately, at the present time, there is no cure for GA but promising treatments are currently being evaluated in clinical trials.
The Macular Degeneration Foundation’s special report on GA describes the natural history of the condition and offers insight on how people with GA can obtain their best possible vision. For more information on the Macular Degeneration Foundation, or to read the report on GA, visit www.eyesight.org.
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Macular Degeneration Foundation press release, August 1, 2009.
Created on: 08/11/2009
Reviewed on: 08/10/2009
Reviewed on: 08/10/2009
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