Prevalence of glaucoma in an eye clinic in Ghana

Abstract

Introduction Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness, after cataracts [1, 2]. Worldwide, an estimated 60.5 million people have glaucoma out of which 8.4 million have become blind. The prevalence is estimated to be on the increase and projected to affect 79.6 million people by the year 2020 [3]. The prevalence of glaucoma is about 1% in the population older than 50