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FACTS ABOUT GLAUCOMA
- Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the optic nerves.
- Glaucoma is second leading cause of blindness after cataract and the leading cause of irreversible Blindness worldwide.
- Blindness from glaucoma is irreversible.
- Glaucoma has no cure, but it requires a life time management to prevent blindness.
- Glasses does not cure glaucoma
- Surgery does not cure glaucoma.
- Over 80million people worldwide are blind from glaucoma
- Glaucoma is hereditary.
- Glaucoma does not give notification before sliding in..
- Glaucoma affects Africans more than the whites.