Statement of NEI Director Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., on World Sight Day 2011, Thursday, Oct. 13
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2011. Older people are at increased risk of several eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataracts, and glaucoma. AMD can cause profound loss of central vision due to the breakdown of the eye’s light-sensing cells in the retina. Cataracts cloud vision through clumping of proteins in the eye’s lens. Glaucoma damages the optic nerve…
