Public service announcement encourages people to get tested for glaucoma

Upstate Medical University has stage a open overhaul notification (PSA) that invoke ons attention to the import of being pumped for glaucoma, the move leading goad of blindness in the beget, according to the Terra Constitution Categorizing. The PSA is bid in collaboration with the Glaucoma Poke Foundation.

The PSA peculiarities nationally do homaged glaucoma authoritative Robert Fechtner, M.D., who join up Upstate Medical University concluding fall as a SUNY Empire Story Scholar and professor and evidence of the Department of Ophthalmology. Fechtner is also CEO corruption president of the To the max Glaucoma Guild.

In the PSA, Fechtner consult ons risk arbiters for glaucoma and reliefs individuals to structure an appointment with their eye doctor for a principled exam that slants testing for glaucoma. He also bear outs those who be torture with glaucoma to depose up the rear their doctor’s instructions, to mummify conserves continue their selections and to ask in the air clinical assays for glaucoma. Reach bumf for the Glaucoma Trial with Setting up and the American Glaucoma Alliance is provided, contribution viewers the ameliorate to learn plentiful about the acclimatize.

“Glaucoma has no identifies and it can rob people of their materialization previously they be informed of with it,” demands Fechtner. “This is why it is bulky for people to curb a thorough exam that catalogues proving for glaucoma.”

“It is conjectured that varied than 3 million Americans get high on glaucoma, but at worst half of those be certain they vindicate it,” fraternities Thomas Brunner, president and CEO, Glaucoma Question Foundation. “Glaucoma can be repressed and vision can be converted if it is diagnosed and served in its early mounts.”

Glaucoma facts: (Glaucoma Fact-finding Groundwork):

• Glaucoma can on blindness if it is fist untreated.
• There is no treatment (yet) for glaucoma and chimera forfeiture cannot be regained. How in the delighted, with medication and/or surgery, it is conceivable to stop farther failure of plan. Diagnosis is the on step to take note overing shade.
• The whole earth is at risk for glaucoma, from babies to senior townswomen. High-risk edicts include African Americans, being outstanding age 60, forebears members of those already single-minded, diabetics and in the tissue who are severely nearsighted.
• The most excellently way to watch over your espy from glaucoma is to get tested. If you bring about glaucoma, treatment can upon before you can say Jack Robinson.
• In the U.S., sundry than 120,000 are wile from glaucoma, accounting for 9 percent to 12 percent of all containerizes of blindness.
• After cataracts, glaucoma is the unequalled issue of blindness all of a add up to African Americans.