2. THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA Incidence and Prevalence The exact incidence and prevalence of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) in the elderly
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The risk of developing glaucoma increases dramatically with age (see table 1). OAG in people under age 40 is very rare (72), but in the Framingham, Massachusetts study, approximately 0.9 percent of people aged 65-69 and 4.4 percent of people aged 80-84 had the disease (94). Given this trend and the figures discussed above, a reasonable estimate of the total number of people over age 65 with OAG today is thus about 2 to 3 percent, or between approximately 600,000 and 900,000 elderly peop1e.
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