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MEDICAL PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACOLOGY: DRUGS:
ADVERSE EVENT: ASPIRIN :
MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: EYES: MACULAR DEGENERATION :
DISABILITIES: BLINDNESS:
Aspirin Linked to Blinding Eye Disease
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Aspirin Linked to Blinding Eye Disease
By Brenda Goodman, MA
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/
20130118/aspirin-blinding-eye-disease
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/b9lsp49
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Jan. 22, 2013 -- Regular aspirin users are more likely to develop the wet
form of age-related macular degeneration compared to people who rarely or
never take the drug, a new study shows.
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Aspirin is one of the most widely used drugs in the world. Millions of
people with heart disease take a daily low dose of aspirin in hopes of
preventing heart attacks and stroke. Its also used to ease pain.
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Macular degeneration is a leading cause of blindness in older adults, and
it is on the rise. The wet form accounts for only about 10% to 15% of
cases, but it progresses more rapidly and is more likely to lead to vision
loss than the dry form.
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In wet macular degeneration, tiny new blood vessels grow under the retina,
the light-sensing part of the eye. These blood vessels break open and
leak, causing scar tissue to form. Over time, the scar tissue clouds
central vision. Its not clear why this happens.
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Both kinds of macular degeneration become more common as people age.
Beyond age, the only risk factor thats consistently been linked to the
condition is smoking.
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News that aspirin may be linked to macular degeneration surfaced last year
when a large European study found that regular aspirin users were more
likely to develop the sight-stealing disease. Before that, two large
studies found no association between aspirin and macular degeneration.
Another study had even suggested that aspirin might protect against the
dry form of the disease.
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Aspirin and Macular Degeneration
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For the new study, researchers in Australia followed more than 2,000 older
adults. Doctors conducted detailed interviews at the start of the study,
asking people about a variety of diet and lifestyle habits, including
medication use. About 11% of people (257) were regular aspirin users,
meaning they'd taken the drug at least once a week in the past year.
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Study participants had regular eye exams to check for changes to their
retinas.
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Fifteen years later, 63 people in the study -- 15 regular aspirin users
and 48 who rarely or never took it -- had developed wet macular
degeneration.
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Compared to people who never took aspirin, regular users were more than
twice as likely to develop macular degeneration. That was true even after
researchers accounted for other things known to influence a persons risk
for macular degeneration, including age, sex, smoking, heart disease, BMI,
and high blood pressure.
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The findings are published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
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