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Study: Glaucoma the leading cause of blindness among a sample of U.S. Hispanics.(Brief Article)
2002 MAY 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness among a population-based sample of U.S. Hispanics, according to a new study to be published in the April 2002 issue of Ophthalmology, the clinical journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Proyecto VER (Vision, Evaluation, and Research Project) is the first comprehensive study of vision loss and blindness among U.S. Hispanics. It found open-angle glaucoma to be the leading cause of blindness in a random sample of 4774 Hispanic Southern Arizona residents, of Mexican descent, age 40 and over.
For U.S. Caucasians, age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of blindness.
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