Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Glaucoma Onset and Severity in a Diverse Nationwide Cohort in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Prcis

Racial/ethnic minorities are diagnosed with glaucoma at younger ages, and Blacks are more likely to be diagnosed with moderate-to-severe glaucoma. In addition, we highlight a gap in the use of diagnosis codes.

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to analyze patterns of diagnosis coding usage and validate epidemiologic patterns of glaucoma onset and severity among primary glaucoma patients within the National Institutes of Health All of Us database.

Patients and methods

We used International Classification of Disease diagnosis codes to build 4 cohorts of patients with mild, moderate, severe, and unspecified stage glaucoma (N=2982). Descriptive analyses were stratified by disease stage, and mean age at diagnosis was compared across racial and ethnic groups. Multi

SUBMITTER: Acuff K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10527068 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature