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Bascom Palmer Researcher Receives Grant to Improve Estimates of Glaucoma Progression
In the next few decades, more than six million patients in the U.S. will be diagnosed with glaucoma, double the number from 2010. A sizable percentage of these patients will progress at such a rapid rate that they are at high risk to go blind or develop visual disability in their lifetimes. For this group, accurate assessments and early identification is critical to maintaining vision.
