British Journal of Ophthalmology 2006;90:29-32It has been suggested that sun exposure may be a risk factor for AMD and that skin sensitivity to sunlight and iris colour could be confounding factors.
According to this study:
"No significant association between AMD and sun exposure, iris colour, change in iris colour, or hair colour was demonstrated."
A retina specialist acquaintance wrote me the following about this article: "I can't believe that this was published. This was a crap paper. It would take thousands of patients followed prospectively in a masked manner to
ReplyDeleteprove disprove this. This is pseudoscience."
I appreciate his input and Dr. Jeffers original skepticism of the study.