| Learning all the facts about age related macular | | | | vision field. Its less severe form, dry ARMD, is |
| disease is an important thing that anyone over | | | | more common than the more severe wet ARMD. |
| the age of 50 should know. This devastating eye | | | | Dry ARMD makes up about 90% of all the |
| disease is a condition that almost always affects | | | | reported cases. In the early stages, vision is not |
| older people and progressively gets worse over | | | | impaired much and drusen (yellow deposits in the |
| the years. Finding out about it early makes it | | | | macula and under the retina of the eye) are |
| easier to control the disease and its progression | | | | sparse. As drusen deposits grow, the macula is |
| into more serious vision loss. | | | | compromised and begins to stretch and become |
| The disease (also known as ARMD) causes loss | | | | dry. Vision loss increases as the thinning and |
| of central vision but side (peripheral) vision | | | | drying process increases in the macula. If not |
| remains intact. Generally, the disease does not | | | | treated, it is very likely that the disease will |
| cause complete blindness but does cause hazy | | | | progress and turn into the more serious wet |
| areas and blind spots to appear in the central | | | | ARMD form of the disease. |