Features of the Course of Open-Angle Glaucoma in Persons Over 50 Years of Age

Abstract

To date, glaucoma still remains in the leading group of diseases that lead to the decay of visual functions, regardless of social conditions and living standards in a particular country. Summarizing the literature data on the structural distribution of glaucoma and its clinical forms, we can conclude that the spread of the disease is mosaic in various climatic and geographical regions around the globe and the multiple dependence of the epidemiological characteristics of the disease in a particular area, including ethnicity, climatic, social and economic factors.