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Vision and Eye Care

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Johns Hopkins Health Alerts Vision and Eye Care

  • Timely information on common eye diseases: cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy
  • Breakthroughs on diagnosing, preventing, and treating vision disorders from specialists at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital

This area of Johns Hopkins Health Alerts provides up-to-date information on the most common causes of low vision: cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy. We also cover less critical eye diseases, such as presbyopia and dry eye, which develop or become more prevalent as people age.

All of the information presented here, including the latest breakthroughs on diagnosing through such tests as tonometry, preventing, and treating eye disease, has been reviewed by the vision specialists at the world-renowned Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Because most eye diseases don’t cause symptoms in their early stages, many people are unaware that they have a vision problem. Surveys by researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that about one third of people with eye disease were unaware of it and that more than one third of those age 65 to 84 had not visited an ophthalmologist (eye doctor) in the last year.

Therefore, periodic visits to an opthmalogist for tests such as tonometry are needed to detect conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts and macular degeneration early enough to allow effective treatment.

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