AMD: 5 things to know about age-related macular degeneration

TRUE. In industrialized countries, age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of low vision and so-called “legal” blindness after the age of 50. Remember that, for the French health authorities, legal blindness is defined by a corrected visual acuity of less than 1/20, and low vision by a corrected visual acuity of between 4/10 and 1/20.