subject: How To Avoid The Incidence Of Macular Degeneration [print this page] If one finds that his central vision declined, here is a possibility that he is suffering from Macular Degeneration. The sufferers of the problems are almost over 65, so it is an age-related problem, also called AMD, a main threat for the visions of the serious citizens.
People may wonder what the cause of macular degeneration is. Macular is a very important part in eyes, which can connect the eye nerves and the brain. If the macular is damaged, the signal of the eyes can not be reflected to the brain, and people suffer from sight loss.
In fact, according to different criteria, there are many types of macular degeneration. It mainly falls into two types, the dry and the wet macular degeneration. The former type is more common than the latter one, with a ratio of 8:1. If peoples central visions get lost, they may be suffering from dry macular degeneration. While the wet macular degeneration is much worse than the dry type. Some abnormality in the cornea will lead to wet macular degeneration. There are some in-growth-tissues in the corneas of the patients with wet macular degeneration. The reason is corneas need more oxygen.
Here is a survey on the present state of AMD in the U.S. and Canada. Wet macular degeneration can always lead to much serious outcomes than people can think-blindness and vision loss. Now there are about 1.75million sufferers of such disease. And the number will almost double as time goes by within 20years. The possibility of this problem for people under 60 is very low. But it is high among population over 75, at a ratio of 30%. In Canada, the possibilities among the younger group and the older group are much higher, at ratio of 23% and 56% respectively.
If people find that there is any blurriness in their central visions, they may have suffered from dry Macular Degeneration. On the contrary, if people find their visions are crooked for some unknown reason, they may have got Wet Macular Degeneration.
Here are some known factors that make lead to the occurrence of Macular Degeneration. The foremost important one is gene-related factor. People may get this disease just for hereditary reasons. Thats to say some specific groups are prone to this problem more easily than others.
Still, other bad habits can also lead to this problem, as smoking, less exercises, imbalanced diet, etc.
It seems that macular degeneration is really horrible. And many people just wonder whether there is any solution for it. In fact, a healthy lifestyle can greatly reduce the risks of macular degeneration. One should try to avoid smoking, do more exercises, protect him or her under sunlight, etc.
