Aging is not good for heart, brain, muscles etc. Eyes are also affected by aging and sometimes badly. Getting age related blindness is not a good prospective for people, especially for those individuals who is dependent on the visual acuity for professional activities. Therefore for some people getting age related blindness leading cause — macular degeneration — may be devastating. Fortunately looks like we’ve got the possibility to prevent this condition.

Researches from Nurse’s health study reported that risk of getting macular degenearation and hence blindness is less is women who were taking hormone replacement therapy. Similar results were found in Women’s Halth Initiative study.  Hormone replacement therapy was especially effective for neo vascular or wet form of age related macular degeneraion. Looks like we are getting more and more evidence of hormones protective effects.
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