Aspirin cause of loss of sight of the elderly

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Baltnks increase the risk of degeneration (loss of sight of age-related) in adults who take aspirin twice daily, compared with those not taking it, according to a study in Europe.
The study - published in the Journal of Ophthalmology - that aspirin raises the concern if it leads to a worsening of defective eye view of the number of adults who depend on it daily to combat heart disease.
The William Christen of the Women's Hospital in Boston that for people who suffer from age-related macular degeneration, it is not wise to probably recommend using aspirin.
And collection of researchers, led by Paulus de Jong in the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the Medical Center academic information on the health and lifestyles of more than 4,700 people over the age of 65 years and the study included adults from Norway, Estonia, Britain, France, Italy, Greece and Spain.
According to de Jong told Reuters that there is disagreement about the link between heart disease and macular degeneration and his team analyzed accurately as possible about whether the heart disease may impact on results, he found that users of aspirin regardless of their blood pressure are at risk of developing type most serious loss of vision .
Dead bodyAnd finds that for people with heart disease who take the drug to maintain their health from deteriorating, the benefits of aspirin comparable risks to the health of the eyes, adding, "Ein sound eyesight has no interest in the body is dead."
Noting there are more studies followed people over time and recorded their use of aspirin and their cases will contribute in solving the visual role of aspirin in macular degeneration.
And 36 wounded among the 839 people taking aspirin on a daily basis in advanceddisease called wet macular degeneration, or about four out of every hundred are dependent on the drug a day, by contrast, was wounded about two out of every hundreddo not take aspirin frequently the same type of macular degeneration.

And lead type combined with moisture, which results in leakage of blood vessels in the eye to vision loss in the middle of the field of vision in the eye and the dry type is more common and less threatening, although sufferers also suffer from defective vision.

The types of wet and dry macular degeneration, the main causes of vision loss amongadults over sixty years, which affects millions of people in the United States.

The researchers found that the use of aspirin is not associated with the dry form, not even the early stages of the disease.

Kristen said Reuters: "I ​​do not think so amazing I think that the effects of aspirin may be different in the early stages of age-related macular degeneration more than the later stages."



Source: Reuters