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Cigarette smoking triples the risk of eye macular degeneration
The macula is located right in the center of the retina at the back of the eye. It is crucial responsible for the fine central vision and sharp vision color. Very usual activities such as driving and reading are impossible when the macula is damaged.
Macular degeneration is a the macula disease. Statistically it affects both eyes and its progression can be either gradual or abrupt. Macula degeneration is the leading cause of blindness and partial vision loss in many European countries and US. This disease do not affect side vision.
Recent studies have found a close connection between smoking and macular degeneration. The risk of vision loss hits the smokers and people who live with them as well.
The study, based on observation of 435 patients with end stage of macular degeneration and 280 people sharing the living with them, concluded that:
Regularly smoking of a pack of cigarettes a day for 40 years had nearly triple the risk of macular degeneration.
Non-smoker people who lived with smokers for at least five years had nearly double the risk of macular degeneration.
Quitting smoking for at least 20 years lowers the risk to a standard equal with people who had never smoked.
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