Glaucoma risk factors
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Risk factors
- People with a family history of glaucoma have about a six percent chance of developing glaucoma.
- Diabetics and 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.
- Women are three times more likely than men to develop acute angle-closure glaucoma due to their shallower anterior chambers.
- Use of steroids can also cause glaucoma.