The findings come more than 20 years after the launch of a landmark clinical trial, follow-up examinations, and analyses. When the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study launched, it was universally accepted that all patients with elevated eye pressure should be given medication to lower that pressure. Researchers recruited more than 1,600 patients nationally who were at moderate to...
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Glaucoma may be more than just an issue of eye pressure
by NYU Langone Health Acute angle closure glaucoma of the right eye (intraocular pressure was 42 in the right eye). Credit: James Heilman, MD/Wikipedia A chemical known to protect nerve cells also slows glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness, results of a new study in rats show. Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine,...