Glaucoma Burden: Indian Scenario
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
Glaucoma is a complex, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of retinal ganglion cells and their axon, leading to optic neuropathy and visual field defect. Recently it has been identified as the second leading cause of preventive blindness among the global population. It is also the leading cause of irreversible visual loss worldwide, affecting 70 million people, which will be 79.6 million by 2020 and 111.8 million by 2040, majority will have open angle glaucoma (74%). Bilateral blindness from glaucoma is projected to affect > 11 million individual worldwide. Glaucoma disproportionately affects women, Asian and African population. (1,2) Visual impairment from glaucoma weighs a heavier economic burden in under developed and developing countries. In US the annual total direct medical cost for glaucoma was estimated to be 16.2 billion dollar. (3) In India the monthly cost of glaucoma medications represented 13%-123% of monthly income for the patients in the lowest socioeconomic groups. In India it is estimated that glaucoma affects 12 million people and causes 12.8% of the total blindness in the country and around one fifth of the global burden of glaucoma. With rapidly growing ageing population, this figure will reach 16 million by
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Rajendra P Maurya
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