20% Of people in the world Glaucoma week-reviewed is in danger zone.
– the screening carried out by the IMO Foundation closes with a diagnosis of glaucoma, 20 cases of suspicion, 15 patients with risk factors and 6 with eyestrain to limit rates
-In total, 41 people should be subject to new diagnostic tests and regular eye checks
Barcelona, March of 2013- 20% of the 205 reviewed last week inside the prevention campaign driven from 11 to 15 March by the IMO Foundation on the occasion of the world Glaucoma weekYou should go to the ophthalmologist suspected of suffering disease or have risk factors for developing it. Specialists of the unit of early diagnosis of the Institute of Ocular microsurgery of Barcelona, where controls were performed for free, recommended that these 41 people undergo new tests to diagnose or rule out a disease either to perform follow-up controls, given the risk factors present. These results confirm the high proportion of people who suffer from glaucoma or are candidates to have it and not know it, since the loss of visual field that causes glaucoma is slow and does not affect central vision to very advanced stages.
screening controls offered by the IMO Foundation to highlight the importance of prevention, have allowed to diagnose a case of glaucoma and 20 suspected persons who might have the disease, though they would need more tests to confirm the diagnosis (9.7%). In addition, 15 patients are candidates to have pathology by risk factors that present: ocular hypertension, main factor of risk, detected in 4 patients (2%); ocluible, angle factor which can lead to hypertension and which affects 9 revised persons, and pigmentary dispersion syndromea rare syndrome that tends to be associated with a type of glaucoma minority and affecting 2 of 205 persons subjected to free controls. To all this must be added a group of six patients (3%), which has been recommended to monitor your eye pressure, since prensentaban rates to those considered normal limit ”, according to Dr. Elena Arrondo, specialist in glaucoma, the IMO.
Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a disease that causes progressive damage to the optic nerve, the part of the eye that sends images to the brain. As a result, visual field is declining gradually and can even cause blindness, if it is not treated in time. The disease, which affects one million people in Spain, is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world, where about 70 million people with the disease, although more than half don’t know it, since it offers no obvious symptoms until it is well advanced. Hence the importance of prevention, with controls regular starting at age 40, which should be intensified from 65 or if you belong to a group of risk.
