New Glaucoma Data Unveiled


Scientists in the Netherlands have released new research data that could help eye care experts to better treat visual field loss in patients with glaucoma – a progressively blinding eye disease. Researchers hope that the new data, published in the September issue of the journal Ophthalmology, could help to prevent hundreds of thousands of patients, worldwide, from irreversibly losing their sight.

The newly revealed data shows that groups who may be at higher risk of developing visual field loss – or shrinking vision – include men, older people, people with a family history of glaucoma and people with higher levels of intraocular eye pressure.

Researchers hope that by identifying these at-risk groups, opticians and ophthalmologists ay be able to better diagnose and treat the blinding eye condition. Eye are experts explain that this development is particularly exciting as  t is estimated that over 80% of people with glaucoma are unaware that they have the blinding eye condition.

2nd September 2010

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