US Patent:
20040052863, Mar 18, 2004
Inventors:
Stephen Bartels - Pittsford NY, US
Cara Baustian - Palisades NY, US
George Bunce - Blacksburg VA, US
Leon Ellenbogen - New City NY, US
Frederick Ferris - Columbia MD, US
Jin Kinoshita - El Macero CA, US
James Smith - Glenn Dale MD, US
David Souerwine - Pittsford NY, US
International Classification:
A61K031/355
A61K033/34
A61K033/32
A61K031/375
A61K031/015
US Classification:
424/638000, 424/643000, 514/458000, 514/474000, 514/763000
Abstract:
A nutritional or dietary supplement composition that strengthens and promotes retinal health through the prevention, stabilization, reversal and/or treatment of visual acuity loss by reducing the risk of developing late stage or advanced age-related macular degeneration in persons with early age-related macular degeneration. The nutritional or dietary supplement composition may likewise reduce the risk of vision loss associated with the development of cataracts. The essential ingredients of the nutritional or dietary supplement composition are vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, zinc and copper. The essential ingredients are preferably provided in a tablet form suitable for oral ingestion. Preferably the composition is taken in the form of one or two tablets taken twice daily.