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Glaucoma will affect 60 million by 2010

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BALTIMORE — The global prevalence of glaucoma is expected to reach 60 million people by 2010 and close to 80 million by 2020, according to recent research.

Harry A. Quigley, MD, who did the research with colleagues at Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore, told Reuters that women, Asians and Africans will be the groups most affected by the disease.

The researchers used population data on glaucoma and United Nations predictions on world population to calculate the rates of the disease by age, sex and ethnicity, according to Reuters.

“By 2020, India will become second overall in number with glaucoma, surpassing Europe,” Dr. Quigley told Reuters. “There will be 6 million more Chinese people with glaucoma.”

The group also predicted that 8.5 million people will be blinded by glaucoma by 2010 and more than 11 million by 2020.

The study is published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.