20 September 2013

NEW YORK (Reuters Heath) - Older Americans with macular degeneration tend not to travel as far from home as others with normal vision, according to a new study.  "It is very interesting that movement tracking revealed these differences as a questionnaire-based study would probably not have found them," said Usha Chakravarthy of The Institute for Ophthalmology and Vision Science at The Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland, who was not involved in the study.  "Having AMD probably dents the confidence even more than glaucomatous field loss," she told Reuters Health.

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