March 15/Boston/Clinical Advisor -- Consuming docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), two omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, could help prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD), study results published online first in the Archives of Opthamology indicate.
Women with the highest DHA intake had a 38% lower risk for developing AMD compared with women with the lowest DHA intake (95% CI 0.45 to 0.86, P=0.004), according to William G. Christen, ScD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues.