Black patients had a higher risk for developing advanced visual field loss after a new diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma, according to a study.
Study author Louis R. Pasquale, MD, told Healio/OSN that these findings could show a need for earlier screening among Black people.
“These patterns don’t just pop up,” he said. “They take time to evolve. That means that people of African ancestry are getting the disease earlier than their white counterparts, and we really need to think about screening them earlier.”
In the study published in Translational Vision