Common sight-threatening retinal diseases seen by all comprehensive ophthalmologists include wet age-related macular degeneration, geographic atrophy and diabetic macular edema.
Reviewing several sources, about 20 million Americans aged 40 years and older have AMD. Most sources suggest 10% have advanced AMD, with approximately 45% being wet AMD, another 45% GA and 10% a combination of wet AMD and GA. Another 3.8% of adults aged 40 years and older have vision-threatening DME. Seventy percent of the U.S. population is aged 40 years and older, or about 233 million people. So, as I do the math,