Correlating Factors of Eye Disease-Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD) with cardiovascular diseases (CVD)

Abstract

The major reason behind permanent blindness in individuals over 50 is AMD. Studies in genetics, 
epidemiology, & molecular biology are starting to reveal complicated processes behind this illness, 
which link way of lipid factors to disease onset & progression pathophysiology. Numerous inherited
& environmental threat elements for AMD also increase risk of other complicated age-related 
degenerative illnesses, such as CVD. This review provides epidemiological data linking AMD to 
many genes involved in cardiovascular symptoms, & pertinent environmental exposures. Age, 
smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, postmenopausal oestrogen usage, diabetes, & dietary 
consumption of lipids, alcohol, & antioxidants are all known risk factors for cardiovascular disease 
which have been linked to AMD