
|Articles|March 1, 2003
No link between cataract surgery, AMD, study shows
Orlando-There is no evidence of an association between cataract surgery and neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but cataract surgery may increase the risk for development of central geographic atrophy, according to findings from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS).
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