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Saturday, January 28, 2006
Passive Smoking Increases Risk of Macular Degeneration
Both smoking and exposure to passive smoke are associated with a higher risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, according to research published recently in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. The researchers, from Cambridge University, also found that former smokers who had not smoked for twenty years or more had the same risk of developing AMD as non-smokers. Read more in 'Smoking and age related macular degeneration: the number of pack years of cigarette smoking is a major determinant of risk for both geographic atrophy and choroidal neovascularisation'' (Khan, JC and others, British Journal of Ophthalmology 2006, Volume 90, pages 75-80).
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