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- Relationship to Diabetes
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Longstanding diabetes may be associated with increased risk for glaucoma, according to a meta-analysis.
Of 47 studies that included 2,981,342 patients from 16 countries, 29 studies looked at the association between diabetes and glaucoma, and five studies looked at the association between diabetes duration and glaucoma.
Prevalence of glaucoma in all studies in the meta-analysis ranged from 1.5% to 8.1%; relative risk for glaucoma when comparing patients with diabetes and patients without diabetes was 1.48.
The risk for glaucoma increased 5% each year since diabetes diagnosis.
http://www.healio.com/ophthalmology...betes-duration-may-increase-risk-for-glaucoma
Of 47 studies that included 2,981,342 patients from 16 countries, 29 studies looked at the association between diabetes and glaucoma, and five studies looked at the association between diabetes duration and glaucoma.
Prevalence of glaucoma in all studies in the meta-analysis ranged from 1.5% to 8.1%; relative risk for glaucoma when comparing patients with diabetes and patients without diabetes was 1.48.
The risk for glaucoma increased 5% each year since diabetes diagnosis.
http://www.healio.com/ophthalmology...betes-duration-may-increase-risk-for-glaucoma