B Vitamins Against Female Blindness
Filed in archive Eye Health , Vitamins on February 25, 2009
B Vitamins (combination of folic acid, and vitamins B6 and B12) may reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in women by 34 per cent.
Such were the findings of a randomised, double-blind clinical trial involving 5,442 women age 40 and older led by William Christen from the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
The combined B vitamin supplement was associated with a 34 per cent lower risk of any AMD and a 41 per cent lower risk of visually significant AMD. The beneficial effect of treatment began to emerge at approximately two years of follow-up and persisted throughout the trial."
The trial findings reported herein are the strongest evidence to date in support of a possible beneficial effect of folic acid and B vitamin supplements in AMD prevention."
Findings were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study results proved to be really promising.
The trial findings reported herein are the strongest evidence to date in support of a possible beneficial effect of folic acid and B vitamin supplements in AMD prevention."
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