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Home > Cost of Chronic Disease > Vision Loss > The Human Burden of Vision Loss
In 2001, approximately 5.6 million prescriptions were filled for glaucoma patients.
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Rein, David B., Ping Zhang, Kathleen E. Wirth, Paul P. Lee, Thomas J. Hoerger, Nancy McCall, Ronald Klein, James M. Tielsch, Sandeep Vijan, and Jinan Saaddine. "The Economic Burden of Major Adult Visual Disorders in the United States". Archives of Ophthalmology. Vol. 124, No. 12, pp. 1754-60. [ Permalink ]