Monitoring May Be Enough For Some Patients At Risk For Glaucoma

Dallas Morning News reported that most patients who are at risk of developing glaucoma because of high eye pressure may just require monitoring.

In a 15-year study presented at the American Glaucoma Society's annual meeting and published in the Archives of Ophthalmology, participants with elevated eye pressure but no evidence of glaucoma were randomized to eye drops or were simply monitored.

In the second part of the study, during which all participants received eye drops, researchers found that in lower-risk patients there was not much difference between those taking drops the whole time and those who got drops seven years later.

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