Age, Gender, Biometry, Refractive Error, and the Anterior Chamber Angle among Alaskan Eskimos

• Published in: Ophthalmology
• Main Authors: Wojciechowski, Robert, Congdon, Nathan, Anninger, William, Teo Broman, Aimee
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dartmouth Digital Commons 2003
• Subjects: human; biometrics; angle; anterior chamber; sex; age; epidemiology; ethnic group; refractive error; prevalence; angle closure glaucoma; alaska; public health; eye disease; america; north america; united states; Medical Specialties; Medicine and Health Sciences; Ophthalmology; eskimo*; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2409; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01748-7; https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/context/facoa/article/3416/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S0161642002017487_main.pdf

The prevalence of angle-closure glaucoma (ACG) is greater for Eskimos/Inuit than it is for any other ethnic group in the world. Although it has been suggested that this prevalence may be due to a population tendency toward shallower anterior chamber angles, available evidence for other populations such as Chinese with high rates of ACG has not consistently demonstrated such a tendency.