Age-related eye diseases will be more common
As shown in the publication How Poles see - a policy brief - document compiled by Filip Raciborski, MD, and Anna Klak, MD, from the Faculty of Health Sciences at WUM, with the support of the national consultant for ophthalmology, Professor Marek Rękas, the epidemiological situation is changing and the number of people struggling with eye diseases, with a particular focus on retinal diseases, is increasing. Currently, one in four Poles is 60 years old, and in 2050 it will be one in three. Therefore, one of our society's more common eye disease problems will be age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - a chronic and progressive disease of the central part of the retina, developing most often in older people. In Poland, about 1.5 million people suffer from AMD, annually nAMD (exudative form of AMD) affects about 14 thousand people, the ill are approx. 140 thousand.
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