Age, gender, biometry, refractive error, and the anterior chamber angle among Alaskan Eskimos.

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 s...

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Published in:Ophthalmology
Main Authors: Wojciechowski, Robert, Congdon, Nathan, Anninger, William, Teo Broman, Aimee
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Science 2003
Subjects:
eskimo*
inuit
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01748-7
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12578783
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102579/
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Summary: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.

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