What you don't know about glaucoma could cost you your sight. Find out how much you know — or don't know — about one of the leading causes of blindness. Are you at high risk?
1. An estimated 3 million Americans have glaucoma. About half of them don't know they have it.
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False
2. Glaucoma is an equal-opportunity condition. It robs the vision of every ethnic and racial group more or less equally.
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False
3. Most African-Americans know about the danger of glaucoma.
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False
4. Glaucoma usually has no symptoms.
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False
5. New surgical techniques can restore areas of lost vision in about 45 percent of all cases.
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False
6. Glaucoma runs in families.
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False
7. Glaucoma is exclusively a disease of adulthood.
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False
8. Getting regular eye exams will not prevent glaucoma.
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False
