What is Glaucoma?
Are you one of the 1 million Americans who have been diagnosed
with glaucoma? If so, you have been given the opportunity to
preserve your vision, because vision loss from glaucoma can
be prevented if it is caught and treated in time. Many others
are not so lucky. Almost 80,000 Americans are blind from glaucoma,
and another million are at risk for vision loss because they
don't know they have it. In fact, glaucoma is one of the leading
causes of preventable blindness in the U.S. It is the single
most common cause of blindness among African-Americans.
Glaucoma is often called the "sneak thief" of sight because the most
common type causes no symptoms until vision is already damaged.
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