Undiagnosed Glaucoma
Failure to diagnose Glaucoma
No early symptoms: This condition may have no early symptoms, and thus fail to be diagnosed in its early stages.
Undiagnosed prevalence of Glaucoma:
1 to 1.5 million (about half of 3 million Americans) for chronic glaucoma
Undiagnosed prevalence rate:
approx 1 in 272 or 0.37% or 1 million people in USA [about data]
Undiagnosed prevalence statistics about Glaucoma:
The following statistics relate to undiagnosed cases of Glaucoma:
- 1,000,000 people have glaucoma and don’t realise it in the US (Research to Prevent Blindness, NISE, NSF)
Medical news about undiagnosed Glaucoma:
The following medical news items
are relevant to nondiagnosis of Glaucoma:
Undiagnosed Causes of Glaucoma
As part of Glaucoma diagnosis, consider whether any
of these underlying medical Glaucoma causes may have been overlooked:
Undiagnosed Complications of Glaucoma
As part of Glaucoma diagnosis, consider whether any
of these Glaucoma complications may have been overlooked:
Undiagnosed Diseases
Read our premium medical health articles on topics related to
undiagnosed conditions in general, not necessarily specific to Glaucoma:
About undiagnosed conditions:
One possible misdiagnosis
is the failure to correctly diagnose Glaucoma
leading to a person remaining with undiagnosed Glaucoma.
Any condition can potentially be missed and stay undiagnosed.
For a general overview of
diseases that are often undiagnosed,
see Failure to Diagnose
or Under-Diagnosed Diseases.
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