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• By Eileen Francis

A study finds claims for ocular supplements cited or relied on AREDS findings even when the products did not match the formulas assessed in the research by NIH’s National Eye Institute. The products emphasize AREDS but offer little information to consumers, they say.

Marketers of some nutritional supplements making vision health claims falsely link their products to the National Institutes of Health’s Age-Related Eye Disease Study, according to an American Academy of Ophthalmology journal study.

The study conducted by researchers led by Jennifer Yong, a physician at the Department of Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital,...

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