Awareness and the use of nutritional supplementation for age-related macular degeneration patients

We read with interest the article 'Awareness and the use of nutritional supplementation for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients' by Waisbourd et al. The authors reported that their 'AMD patients lack knowledge about their own ocular disease.' The authors, however, erroneously stated that 'other studies conducted internationally demonstrated lack of awareness for this blinding disease among the general population with 9.2-30% who were not familiar with the disease.' In fact, only 9.2-30% were familiar with the condition as a cause for loss of vision.