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Ocular nutritional supplements lack evidence in AREDS formula claims
An analysis of the top-selling brands of ocular nutritional supplements found they contain the same ingredients as in the AREDS and AREDS2 formulas, but not all contained the exact doses.Furthermore, product description claims of health benefits for half of the products studied lacked supporting level 1 evidence.The study analyzed the industry’s five top-selling brands of ocular nutritional supplements in the U.S. according to dollar sales from June 2011 to June 2012: PreserVision (Bausch + Lomb), Ocuvite (Bausch + Lomb), ICaps (Alcon), ICaps AREDS (Alcon) and EyeScience Macular Health Formula (EyeScience).