Vitamins Combat Age-Related Blindness
(Chicago, Reuters Health, 11/11/03)

A 2001 study showed that supplementation with high dose antioxidants-- vitamins C, E and beta carotene--plus zinc, cut the risk of developing advanced macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older adults. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore have analyzed the study data and concluded that, if the 8 million Americans 55 and older, who are at high risk for the condition, took the above supplements, more than 300,000 of them could save themselves from advanced macular degeneration and related visual impairment during the next 5 years.