SEATTLE — Black patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, or IIH, have greater odds of developing visual impairment, according to research presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.
Noor Chahal, BS, told Healio that previous research found that Black patients had odds ratios as high as 3.5 to 4.8 in both eyes.
“This was done in 2008, and we wanted to use a newer sample,” he said.
Researchers used data from the 2020 Nationwide Inpatient Sample to determine if factors such as gender, age, race and primary insurance had a relationship