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What are the symptoms and risks of AMD?

Macular Degeneration symptoms include:-

• Blurry distance and/or reading vision
• Need for increasingly bright light to see up close
• Difficulty seeing when going from bright light to low light (such as entering a dimly lit room from the bright outdoors)
• Trouble or inability to recognize peoples faces
• Blank or blurry spot in your central vision
• Distorted vision (straight lines will appear bent, crooked or irregular)
• Loss of central vision
• Size of objects may appear different for each eye
• Colours lose their brightness; colours do not look the same for each eye

Risk Factors

• Increasing age
• If you are a smoker
• If you have a strong family history
• High blood pressure
• Poor diet

Other risk factors include:

• Obesity
• Gender: woman appear to be at a greater risk
• Direct exposure to sunlight
• High cholesterol

There are two types of AMD:-

• Dry age related macular degeneration
• Wet age related macular degeneration