Glaucoma and Cardiovascular Death in African Americans

An article in Medical News Today reports on a paper, in the March edition of Archives of Ophthalmology, that found:

Patients who are black have an increased risk of death from cardiovascular diseases if they have high pressure in the eyes or if they have been diagnosed with and treated for glaucoma, according to a report in the March 2008 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Glaucoma And Cardiovascular Death Linked In Black Patients
[Medical News Today]

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