How to Assess Risk in Ocular Hypertensives.

The article presents a research to provide risk assessment for ocular hypertension at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center at the University of California in San Diego, California. The purpose of the study is to identify patients at moderate to high risk for conversion from ocular hypertension to glaucoma and help decide if the therapy is warranted. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study found that 9.5 percent of the ocular hypertensives who were left untreated progressed to glaucoma.