Oxygen and Glaucoma Risk in African Americans (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Optic nerve damage from glaucoma seems to be at least partly related to damage from byproducts of oxygen in the eye. now, measuring oxygen levels during eye surgery, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a difference between African-American patients and caucasians that may help explain why African Americans are at higher risk for glaucoma and for vision loss from the disease. Jim Dryden reports.

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