Clinicians should consider having conversations pertaining to well-being with patients with glaucoma and referring them to appropriate support services when necessary.
Despite its failure to achieve noninferiority status, latanoprost without BAK may still be a safe alternative to latanoprost with BAK in treating patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
Older age, increased IOP, thinner central cornea, higher vertical cup/disc ratio, and longer axial length were also highly associated with open-angle glaucoma incidence.
Black study participants were younger at baseline, indicating a greater potential to develop visual impairment in their lifetime compared with White participants.
Clinicians should identify patients who are ineffective at administering eye drops and educate them on appropriate self instillation techniques, a study suggests.
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that evidence for weighing the balance of benefits and harms of screening adults aged 40 years or older for primary open-angle glaucoma is currently inadequate.
Retinal fiber layer thickness assessments can help clinicians detect glaucoma progression more precisely than visual field parameters, according to a study.
