Based on NICE, estimates point out that round 39,8000 individuals develop neo-vascular AMD within the UK annually.

“Given a complete UK inhabitants of 60 million, this equates to 663 new instances per million per yr,” explains the well being physique.

The illness tends to have an effect on an individual’s central imaginative and prescient and may end up in extreme lack of central imaginative and prescient, inflicting an individual to go blind.

Danger elements for this embrace being aged 50 and outdated, smoking, having hypertension or consuming a food plan excessive in saturated fat.