Baseline visual acuity gaps in age-related macular degeneration: AREDS smokers and non-smokers
Madeline Pan, Neha Sunkara, Biai Dominique Elmir Digbeu, Praveena K. Gupta · 2026
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Madeline Pan and co-authors examine, in a 2026 retrospective study, vision in 450 patients with intermediate dry age-related macular degeneration at one academic center over a decade. Care records for 759 eyes were split by smoking history and by whether patients took AREDS vitamin supplements, a standard aid for this stage of disease.
Patients taking the supplements started with better vision than those who did not, in both smokers and non-smokers. Vision changes through follow-up were tracked with standard eye-chart measures converted for analysis. The work highlights a baseline gap that can shape how later results are read, and it gives eye clinics a reason to record supplement use and smoking carefully.
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| CREATOR | Madeline Pan, Neha Sunkara, Biai Dominique Elmir Digbeu, Praveena K. Gupta |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31411 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |