RetGen

Following a review of than 20 research studies on thousands of patients around the world, Prof. Michael Belkin and Dr. Zohar Habot-Wilner of the Goldschleger Eye Institute at the Sheba Medical Center found a consistently strong correlation between obesity and the occurrence and development of all four of the major eye diseases that cause blindness - age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy. Their report appeared recently in the Israeli medical journal Refuah.