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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 11.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2021 Aug 5;385(6):539–547. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcp2102061

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) Simplified Severity Scale for AMD (adapted from 11). This simplified scoring system allows the examining physician to estimate the risk of AMD progression in an individual patient. *Large druse ≥ 125 microns; a patient with intermediate drusen (63–124 microns) in both eyes also gets a score of 1 for drusen; #a patient with advanced AMD in one eye gets a score of 2 for that eye. An individual patient score facilitates an informed discussion about micronutrient supplementation and counseling regarding progression of disease with the patient.