Glaucoma Risk among Asian Americans Quantified

"It's generally known that African Americans have the highest risk for glaucoma (about 12 percent) among racial groups in the United States," starts the post from MedicalNewsToday. "They are more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic white Americans (5.6 percent) to develop this potentially blinding disease. But little was known about risks for Asian Americans until a National Eye Institute funded study published recently in Ophthalmology journal (online). By reviewing insurance records of more than 44,000 Asian Americans older than 40, the researchers found their glaucoma risk to be 6.5 percent, which is about the same as U.S. Latinos."