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The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Receives Federal Funding to Learn More About Patients At High Risk for
Glaucoma
New
York, NY (Spring 2003) -- The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Department of Ophthalmology has received a grant of $2 million over a period of five years from the National Eye Institute for the study, "Visual Function in
African-American Eyes with Glaucoma or Ocular Hypertension."
Principal investigator is
Jeffrey Liebmann,
M.D., who noted that people of African-American heritage are several times more likely
than Caucasians to develop glaucoma, and when they do, the disease progresses faster and with more severity.
Individuals will be screened and monitored with state-of-the-art ocular imaging devices such as confocal scanning laser
ophthalmoscopy, confocal scanning laser polarimetry, optical coherence tomography, frequency doubling
perimetry, achromatic automated perimetry, short-wavelength automated
perimetry, and simultaneous stereophotography over the life of the study.
It is anticipated that findings here will lead to earlier diagnosis and more precise treatment methods for people at highest risk for this potentially blinding eye disease.
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