Article: Study reveals: Eye drops delays onset of glaucoma by 50 percent


Miami Times
09-10-2002
Researchers have discovered that eye drops used to treat elevated pressure
inside the eye can be effective in delaying the onset of glaucoma. These
results mean that treating people at higher risk for developing glaucoma
may delay - and possibly prevent - the disease. These findings are reported
in the June 2002 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.

Scientists found that pressure-lowering eye drops reduced by more than 50
percent the development of primary open-angle glaucoma, the most common
form of glaucoma and one of the nation's leading causes of vision loss.
Researchers noted that 4.4 percent of the study participants who received
the eye drops developed glaucoma within ...

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