AREDS Study and Zinc for ARMD
AREDS Study and Zinc for ARMD
The first thing that you should consider when you are looking at the role of zinc in AMD is the Age Related Eye Disease Study, also known as AREDS. This study, performed over an average of 6.3 years and including more than 3500 people, eventually concluded that the ingestion a high level of antioxidants and zinc oxide could halt the progression of AMD. While this treatment for macular degeneration could not restore vision that had already been lost, it was shown that it had a positive effect on being able to halt the progression of an existing intermediate case of AMD.