Risk Factors for Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG) Progression: A Study Ruled in Torino.
CONCLUSION: Results of this study confirm and enforce data coming from most recent studies: IOP remains the main risk factor for glaucoma assess and progression; age and familiarity are great risk factors as underlined in the last decades; female sex can be an important risk factors as emerged only in the last years; arterial hypertension should always be evaluated in timing of our clinic follow up.
PMID: 27347249 [PubMed]
Source: Open Ophthalmology Journal - Category: Opthalmology Tags: Open Ophthalmol J Source Type: research
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