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Healthy Vision Month – 2
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. All too often, people don’t have their eyes examined until they start noticing problems with their vision. Dr. Janine Austin Clayton at the Office of Research on Women’s Health says having regular, comprehensive eye exams can help detect diseases in their early stages, when they can still be treated.
Dr. Clayton: Just because you don’t have any problems seeing or other discomfort in your eye or pain, doesn’t mean you’re not having an eye problem. Without a complete eye exam that also involves checking the eye pressure, you cannot be sure that your eyes are healthy.
Narrator: How often to have your eyes examined depends on age, family history and other risk factors. For details on eye health, and more about medical research, visit www.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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