Research · Systematic review
Antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements for slowing the progression of age-related macular degeneration
What it found
The AREDS antioxidant-plus-zinc formula probably slows progression to late AMD (moderate certainty); standalone lutein/zeaxanthin shows low-certainty, possibly small effect.
- Design
- Systematic review
- Year
- 2017
- Population
- people with established AMD (Cochrane review)
- Intervention
- antioxidant vitamins plus zinc; lutein/zeaxanthin
- Outcome
- progression to late AMD / vision loss
- Journal
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Citation last checked 2026-06-21.