Vitamins

In the January 2025 issue of the journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Tiarnan Keenan and colleagues published a study about vitamin use in macular degeneration.

Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of interest in medications used to decrease geographic atrophy progression. Geographic atrophy is a manifestation of macular degeneration, and there are injections that can slow it down.

Dr. Keenan and colleagues showed in this paper that vitamins used for macular degeneration can also decrease the worsening of geographic atrophy. This is always important to remember–treatment doesn’t always have to be injections!