SEATTLE — A study on progression of dry age-related macular degeneration found that smoking did not affect the likelihood of developing wet AMD, but smokers had worse visual acuity than nonsmokers.
“Our analysis revealed that female smokers experienced a more noticeable decline in visual acuity compared to male smokers over time,” Sharat Chandra Vupparaboina, of Wichita State University, and colleagues wrote in a poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting.
Vupparaboina and colleagues used retrospective electronic health record