AREDS 2 Supplement — A Plain-Language Walkthrough of What It Is and Why It Matters
First, Let's Decode the name.
If your eye doctor has mentioned an AREDS 2 supplement to you, the first reaction many people have is: what on earth does that even stand for?" Fair question. AREDS is short for "Age-Related Eye Disease Study," which is the name of two huge clinical research projects run by the National Eye Institute. The first one was AREDS. The follow-up, which refined and...