Study finds supplements boost vision of AMD patients

A major study involving over 100 people in the early stages of the most common cause of blindness has shown an improvement in the vision of those taking a dietary supplement of carotenoids.

The European Research Council-funded programme was carried out by a team from the Nutrition Research Centre Ireland at Waterford Institute of Technology on participants who were all diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Those living with AMD could have expected to experience a deterioration in their vision over the two years of the clinical trial. But instead, those receiving carotenoids showed a significant improvement across 24 out of 32 vision tests.