Omega-3 linked to reduced risk of macular degeneration

- Breaking News Related to Macular Degeneration, Cataract, Glaucoma, Corneal Disease and Other Eye Conditions - http://eyedocnews.com -

Evidence Builds for a Role of Omega-3 in Reducing AMD Risk

Posted By Dr. Risa Schulman On June 29, 2011 @ 1:13 pm In Macular Degeneration,Nutrition,Research | Comments Disabled

In the footsteps of a ten-year study performed at Harvard and published in March showing omega-3s reduced the risk of age-related macular degeneration (see EyeDocNews post “Can Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Fish Reduce Risk of Macular Degeneration in Women? ^[1]“), comes another study focusing on these effects in an elderly French population.

The Alienor study is also a prospective study performed with 666 subjects (that’s 1289 eyes) who were over 73 years of age. Once again, those subjects consuming the highest levels of omega-3s had a reduced risk of both early stage (17% reduction) and late stage (74% reduction!) AMD.

For the study abstract, click here ^[2].

Risa Schulman, PhD
Expert, Healthy Food and Dietary Supplement Science, Marketing and Regulatory
Tap~Root

Article printed from Breaking News Related to Macular Degeneration, Cataract, Glaucoma, Corneal Disease and Other Eye Conditions: http://eyedocnews.com

URL to article: http://eyedocnews.com/005623-evidence-builds-for-a-role-of-omega-3-in-reducing-amd-risk/

URLs in this post:

[1] Can Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Fish Reduce Risk of Macular Degeneration in Women?: http://eyedocnews.com../005040-can-omega-3-fatty-acids-and-fish-reduce-risk-of-macular-degeneration-in-women/

[2] here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21705687

Click here to print.