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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
==Epidemiology and Demographics== | ==Epidemiology and Demographics== | ||
===Gender=== | |||
* Women are three times more likely than men to develop acute angle-closure glaucoma due to their shallower anterior chambers. | |||
===Race=== | |||
* African Americans are three times more likely than caucasians to develop primary open angle glaucoma. | |||
* Asians are susceptible to angle-closure glaucoma, and Inuit have a twenty to forty times higher risk than caucasians of developing primary angle closure glaucoma. | |||
===Prevalence=== | |||
* Worldwide, it is the second leading cause of blindness.<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=606657 "Glaucoma, Normal Tension, Susceptibility To."] OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Accessed October 17, 2006.</ref> | * Worldwide, it is the second leading cause of blindness.<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=606657 "Glaucoma, Normal Tension, Susceptibility To."] OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Accessed October 17, 2006.</ref> | ||
* Glaucoma affects one in two hundred people aged fifty and younger and one in ten over the age of eighty. | * Glaucoma affects one in two hundred people aged fifty and younger and one in ten over the age of eighty. | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Epidemiology and Demographics
Gender
- Women are three times more likely than men to develop acute angle-closure glaucoma due to their shallower anterior chambers.
Race
- African Americans are three times more likely than caucasians to develop primary open angle glaucoma.
- Asians are susceptible to angle-closure glaucoma, and Inuit have a twenty to forty times higher risk than caucasians of developing primary angle closure glaucoma.
Prevalence
- Worldwide, it is the second leading cause of blindness.[1]
- Glaucoma affects one in two hundred people aged fifty and younger and one in ten over the age of eighty.
References
- ↑ "Glaucoma, Normal Tension, Susceptibility To." OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Accessed October 17, 2006.