Comportamiento de la Degeneración Macular Relacionada con la Edad en la provincia de Sancti Spíritus.

The age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is a bilateral maculopathy that affect central vision and has a social, scientific and economic repercussion due to the visual discapacity that causes.With the objective of characterizing the behaviour of the AMD, it was done a study of 49 patients that went to the retina consultation of the oftalmological service from the General Hospital Camilo Cienfuegos of Sancti Spiritus the period of january 1 st , 2006 to december 31 st 2008. Different variables were used like: age, sex, skin color, risk factors, general deseases, clinical forms and treatment. It prevailed the male sex (53,0%), the age group of 80 years plus (57,1 %), the white race (93,8%), the arterial hypertension as a general desease (38,7%), and the dry clynical form (89.7%). It was found the advance age and the white race as main risk factors and prevailed the dry clinic form of the desease.