Nikitha Reddy, MD , and colleagues conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study using the 2005-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
The researchers reported in the poster that 3,076,410, or 3.7%, of the 83,643,392 subjects in the NHANES study had glaucoma, which was defined as more than two abnormal points on visual field tests and cup-to-disc ratio (CDR) or CDR asymmetry of at least 97.5% of the NHANES population.
Reddy told Healio.com/OSN that she and her colleagues looked at the risk of glaucoma associated with a range of weight loss (Read more...)
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