age related macular changes
What You Can Do About Age-Related Vision Changes. A healthy diet and wise lifestyle choices, such as not smoking, are your best natural defenses against vision loss as you age. Also, you need to have regular eye exams with a caring and knowledgeable optometrist or ophthalmologist. While normally we think of aging as it relates to conditions such as presbyopia and cataracts, more subtle changes in our vision and eye structures also take place as we grow older. These changes include: 1  Reduced pupil size. 2  As we age, muscles that control our pupil size and reaction to light lose some strength. Although some macular dystrophies affecting younger individuals are sometimes rarely referred to as macular degeneration, the term generally refers to age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD). Just as our physical strength decreases with age, our eyes also exhibit an age-related decline in performance  particularly as we reach our 60s and beyond. Some age-related eye changes, such as presbyopia, are perfectly normal and don't signify any sort of disease process. While cataracts can be considered an age-related disease, they are extremely common among seniors and can be readily corrected with cataract surgery. 1 Aging: About 10% of patients 66 to 74 years of age will have findings of macular degeneration. 2  The prevalence increases to 30% in patients 75 to 85 years of age. Macular degeneration, often age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), is a medical condition that usually affects older adults and results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the macula) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in dry and wet forms. Even though cataracts are considered an age-related eye disease, they are so common among seniors that they can also be classified as a normal aging change. According to Mayo Clinic, about half of all 65-year-old Americans have some degree of cataract formation in their eyes. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of worldwide blindness in the elderly, is a bilateral ocular condition that affects the central area of retina known as the macula. Age-related macular degeneration begins with characteristic yellow deposits (drusen) in the macula, between the retinal pigment epithelium and the underlying choroid. Most people with these early changes (referred to as age-related maculopathy) still have good vision. […] AGE products are one of the things that make smoking the biggest risk factor for development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an area of research I know a little bit […]. Vinales, Viñales – Cuba — Jonesblog june, 5 @ 2013:12 31. […] Am the short story: Is’don t. smoke
A loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the macula) because of damage to the retina.