Common sleeping pill may stop your eyesight deteriorating

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Melatonin supplements, commonly used as sleeping aids, may improve your chances of maintaining your eyesight into older age according to international research. The researchers looked at health records for over 200,000 people who either had no history of age-related eyesight decline, or were at an early stage of decline. Comparing those who used melatonin supplements with those who didn't, the researchers say melatonin was linked with a lower risk of developing age-related eyesight deterioration among people with no decline, and a lower risk of further deterioration among those at an early stage of decline. The researchers say other lifestyle factors could have influenced their results, so more work should be done to confirm this link.

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conference: JAMA Opthalmology

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Organisation/s: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA, Cole Eye Institute, USA

Funder: This study was supported by the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland, which is funded by Clinical and Translational Science Award UL1TR002548 from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Science, and Research to Prevent Blindness Challenge Grant P30EY025585 (BA-A) and Cleveland Eye Bank Foundation grant T32 EY024236 from the National Eye Institute (Ms Shaia).

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