RESEARCH ARTICLE
Estimating the Risk of Developing Glaucoma
Felipe A Medeiros*, Robert N Weinreb
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 3
First Page: 50
Last Page: 53
Publisher ID: TOOPHTJ-3-50
DOI: 10.2174/1874364100903010050
Article History:
Received Date: 11/3/2009Revision Received Date: 9/4/2009
Acceptance Date: 20/5/2009
Electronic publication date: 17/9/2009
Collection year: 2009

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Abstract
The issue of risk assessment in glaucoma has received increasing attention in the past few years since the publication of results from the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Predictive models have been developed in order to estimate the risk that patients with ocular hypertension will develop glaucoma if left untreated. The purpose of this article is to review issues on the development and validation of predictive models to estimate risk of glaucoma development. Current models are reviewed and details about their development and validation are provided.