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2014 Rapport focuses on primary open-angle glaucoma
PARIS — Based on large datasets, original research and meta-analysis of long-term study reports, this year’s Rapport of the French Society Of Ophthalmology gives a comprehensive view of current epidemiology, risk factors, best practices for disease management and overall cost of primary open-angle glaucoma. The book contains epidemiology data based on a meta-analysis of all studies between 1959 to 2013, for a total of 33,000 glaucoma cases. “Results show that in Western countries 2.6% of the population has glaucoma and 50% do not know they do,” Jean-Paul Renard, MD, first (Read more...)