1. Risk factors for open-angle glaucoma and recommendations for glaucoma screening
- Author
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Alexander K. Schuster, Felix M Wagner, Esther M. Hoffmann, and Norbert Pfeiffer
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,genetic structures ,Open angle glaucoma ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Visual impairment ,Glaucoma ,Glaucoma screening ,medicine.disease ,eye diseases ,Anterior chamber angle ,03 medical and health sciences ,Ophthalmology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Epidemiology ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,medicine ,Optic nerve ,Optometry ,sense organs ,medicine.symptom ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Open-angle glaucomas are a group of chronic progressive optic nerve neuropathies with a gonioscopic open anterior chamber angle. They are one of the main causes of visual impairment and blindness in industrialized countries. The aim of this article is to discuss and evaluate the epidemiology and risk factors for the development of open-angle glaucoma and to present the screening procedure for open-angle glaucoma according to the recently published S2e guidelines of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF).
- Published
- 2021