Eating oily fish may cut risk

Eating oily fish may reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), researchers have claimed.

The findings of a study of patients at 11 retinal speciality clinics are published in the May issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.

In the study, 1,115 people who did not have AMD were compared with 658 people who did suffer symptoms. All participants recorded what kind of foods they ate and how often.

Those with a higher dietary level of omega-3 fatty acids, mainly from oily fish, were associated with around a 40 per cent reduction in the risk of neovascular AMD.

The authors cautioned that further research was needed.