The risk of blindness from glaucoma has halved in 30 years

The risk that glaucoma will worsen and eventually lead to blindness has been cut in half since 1980. This improvement is due to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of the eye disease, according to the results of a Mayo Clinic study published in the journal Ophthalmology, published by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).

The aim of the study was to evaluate for the first time the long-term changes in the risk of developing irreversible blindness, as currently around 60,500,000 people worldwide suffer from it.

Thanks to improved epidemiological analyses, this study was able to investigate whether improvements in clinical practice in the management of the disease had achieved any benefit.