Sunlight exposure plus low antioxidant levels may place elderly at risk for eye disease
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 05:49
in Health & Medicine
A European study suggests that the combination of low plasma levels of antioxidants and blue light exposure from the sun is associated with certain forms of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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