Current use of dietary supplementation in patients with age-related macular degeneration

The Effect of Intensive Education on Concordance with the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) Recommendations in a Tertiary Referral Practice

“…The concordance rate in clinic 2 is in the same order of rates seen in the other AREDS compliance studies [10,11,12,19]. In clinic 1, the concordance rate is extraordinarily high when compared to concordance studies of AREDS recommendations and to long-term therapy commonly seen in medical practice [10,11,12,13,19,20]. This confirms the role of rigorous education in increasing the concordance rate.…”

“…In the literature the reported concordance rate with AREDS recommendations varies between 1 and 61% [10,11,12,13]. These studies have suggested that expense, size of tablets, polypharmacy and education are responsible for the variation.…”

Adherence to Recommendations of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study in Patients With Age-Related Macular Degeneration

“…[7][8][9][10] Most recently, Charkoudian et al 10 reported vitamin use patterns in patients with AMD and reported appropriate use of AREDS-type supplements in 62% of eligible patients. The current study, conducted nearly 4 years later and 7 years after the release of the AREDS reports, found a lower rate of adherence (42.5% [17 of 64]) to the current recommendations for AREDS-like supplementation.…”

“…Despite the potential public health impact of vitamin use, the widespread availability of these supplements, and the dissemination of the AREDS recommendations (which are included in the American Academy of Ophthalmology Preferred Practice Patterns publication on AMD 5 ), many patients with AMD who may benefit from vitamin supplementation may not be taking the vitamin supplements as recommended. [6][7][8][9][10] A recently published study reported that only 61% of patients who were candidates for supplementation were using AREDS-type vitamins in the recommended dosages. 10 The purposes of this study were to investigate the rate of adherence to the AREDS recommendations for vitamin supplementation in patients with AMD and to investigate factors associated with use and nonuse of AREDS supplements 7 years after the release of the results of AREDS.…”

Application of HPLC–APCI–MS with a C-30 reversed phase column for the characterization of carotenoid esters in mandarin essential oil

“…5 In addition, a high stability against possible thermo-, photoand enzymatic oxidation reactions has been related to the degree of esterification. [10][11][12][13] Moreover, as these compounds are intensely coloured, they are widely used as food colourants. 7 Most studies have been carried out after saponification procedures, so the resulting data do not represent the native carotenoid composition of plant tissues.…”