According to a recent British study showed that if you have brothers and sisters suffering from glaucoma, then your risk of eye damage may occur to ordinary people and 4 times the expected risk. Based on these findings, there are siblings of glaucoma patients to do the best one eye examination every two years.
Glaucoma is a will affect the optical nerve, but also lead to blindness diseases. The researchers examined 271 glaucoma patients and found brothers and sisters, about 12% of people suffering from glaucoma; those initial results do not suffer from glaucoma screening once again those who were screened (159 individuals), 7% of the people in the following 6-8 years of follow-up the development of glaucoma during the study period, while 19% of the person is suspected of suffering from glaucoma. These data show that glaucoma will be in the family genetics, and risk increases with age.
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