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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with type 2 diabetes apparently run an increased risk of developing glaucoma, the eye condition characterized by increased internal pressure that can lead to blindness if left untreated. The finding comes from an analysis of data from more than 76,000 participants in the Nurses' Health Study. "The study supports the notion that type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of glaucoma," lead author Dr. Louis R. Pasquale, from Harvard Medical...
LONDON (Reuters) - Global cases of the eye disease glaucoma are expected to reach 60 million by 2010 and 80 million by 2020, researchers said on Thursday.Professor Harry Quigley, of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, said women and people in Asia and Africa will be most affected."It is a preventable cause of blindness. It is a treatable disease," said Quigley, who reported the findings in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.Glaucoma is a condition that...
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Brothers and sisters of patients with glaucoma have about a 20 percent chance of having developed the disease by the time they reach age 70, according to results of the Nottingham Family Glaucoma Screening Study. "That's about five times the risk of the whole population at a similar age," Stephen A Vernon from University Hospital in Nottingham told Reuters Health. In the initial phase of the study, 271 siblings of 156 glaucoma patients...
