open angle glaucoma

Primary open angle glaucoma is the most common type.

People of African descent are three times more likely to develop primary open angle glaucoma.

The same year, there were 2.8 million people in the United States with open angle glaucoma.

Strabismus or primary open angle glaucoma was noted in some of the patients.

People with high myopia are more likely to have retinal detachments and primary open angle glaucoma.

However, increased intraocular pressure is neither sufficient nor necessary for development of primary open angle glaucoma, although it is a major risk factor.

A meta-analysis published in 2009 found that patients with primary open angle glaucoma do not have increased mortality rates, or increased risk of cardiovascular death.

Glaucoma is also the leading cause of blindness in African Americans, who have higher rates of primary open angle glaucoma.

Toxic glaucoma is open angle glaucoma with an unexplained significant rise of intraocular pressure following unknown pathogenesis.

Open angle glaucoma, ocular hypertension, low-tension glaucoma, and refraction.

The relative risk of having primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is increased approximately 2-4 fold for individuals who have a sibling with glaucoma.

Glaucoma, particularly primary open angle glaucoma, is associated with mutations in several different genes, although most cases of glaucoma do not involve these genetic mutations.

The sudden, rapid elevation of pressure is more common with narrow/closed angle glaucoma which is more common to the breed than the slower open angle glaucoma.