Air pollution is a health hazard, and not only for the lungs.
The eyes, and particularly the delicate layers of the retina, may be affected, and chronic exposure may trigger or speed up the mechanisms that lead to age-related degenerative eye diseases.
A study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology investigated the association between air pollution and AMD in a large sample of the U.K. population. Healio/OSN spoke with one of the authors, Tunde Peto, MD, MHealthEd, PhD, professor of clinical ophthalmology at Queen’s University Belfast, about the study.
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