Genetic variants in a sodium-dependent vitamin C transporter gene and age-related cataract.

CONCLUSIONS: Using an established genetic variant as a proxy for lifetime ascorbate concentrations, our results support a causal association of vitamin C with cataract.
PMID: 30442817 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The British Journal of Ophthalmology - November 15, 2018 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Ravindran RD, Sundaresan P, Krishnan T, Vashist P, Maraini G, Saravanan V, Chakravarthy U, Smeeth L, Nitsch D, Young IS, Fletcher AE Tags: Br J Ophthalmol Source Type: research