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The measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP) is perhaps most commonly associated with glaucoma. Glaucoma is the name given to a group of diseases that produce characteristic progressive optic nerve atrophy and associated visual field loss. According to the World Health Organisation, glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and currently affects an estimated 61 million people - this number is expected to rise to almost 80 million by 2020. On average, around 2.1% of people aged 40 years and over have open angle glaucoma (OAG), but this prevalence varies substantially due to age (increasing by several per cent per decade) and racial background (1.4% in eyes of people of Asian origin and 4.2% of people with African origin).
Author: Dr Kirsten E. Hamilton, PhD, B.Optom (Hons), MCOptom
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