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Online Guide to Understand the Risk Of Retinal Conditions Caused by Smoking

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As we all know that there are a lot of harms of smoking to the human body? People who usually have a habit of smoking undergo an increasing risk of conditions like cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Apart from these conditions, smoking can also increase the risk of vision loss. Smoking can also lead to the risk of retinal conditions and other eye diseases. If these retinal conditions do not get proper treatment then it may result in partial or complete vision loss.  Age-related macular degeneration  Age-related macular degeneration is a type of eye condition that causes the loss of central vision and people suffering from such eye condition find difficulty to process the fine details. There are two types of age-related macular degeneration with which people can suffer from and which include Wet AMD and Dry AMD. Dry AMD is caused by a deterioration of tissues within the retina, whereas wet AMD is caused by leaky blood vessels beneath the retina. People who use smoking are mor...