- A Mount Sinai study analyzed close to 210,000 patients over 40, with no glaucoma at baseline
- Their lifestyle, diet, and medical status, including glaucoma diagnosis, was followed at biennial eye exams
- 1,946 participants who developed glaucoma were divided into groups based on visual field loss
- Ethnicity was a clear risk factor for early and advanced vision loss due to glaucoma
- Black patients’ risk of advanced vision loss was six times higher than for white participants, while Asian patients had a twofold higher risk of early visual field loss, but not of advanced vision loss
References
- LR Pasquale et al., Translational Vision Science and Technology (2022).
