Sentences with phrase «iris freckles»
«The investigation of iris freckles in several eye diseases could lead to new knowledge regarding their pathogenesis,» says Dr. Schwab.
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The researchers wrote in their paper that these findings «seem to suggest that iris freckles indicate a high cumulative dose of lifetime sun exposure.»
«The presence of iris freckles also indicates sun damage to the skin, a risk factor for several different kinds of skin cancer.
«While we do not know the exact role of sunlight in several eye diseases, we now have a biomarker (iris freckles) indicating high amounts of chronic sunlight exposure,» says author Christoph Schwab, MD, ophthalmologist at the Medical University of Graz, Austria.
Not exact matches
What Dr. Schwab found most fascinating was the location of most eye freckles: the lower, outer section of the iris.