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Epidemiology and Demographics

Prevalence

• Worldwide, it is the second leading cause of blindness.
• Glaucoma affects one in two hundred people aged fifty and younger and one in ten over the age of eighty.

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.