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October 17, 2024

Glaucoma in the US—Gaps in Data on Racial and Ethnic Minority and Aging Populations

Author Affiliations
  • 1Southern California Eye Institute, CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Los Angeles
  • 2USC Roski Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
JAMA Ophthalmol. 2024;142(11):1053-1054. doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.4379

Despite recent biomedical advances in detecting and treating glaucoma, it remains a leading cause of irreversible vision loss and a substantial public health problem in the US and worldwide. In this issue of JAMA Ophthalmology, Ehrlich and colleagues1 make an important contribution by providing updated estimates of the prevalence of glaucoma and vision-affecting glaucoma in the US using data from population-based studies, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, medical claims, and 2022 population estimates from the US Census Bureau.

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