If your parents and grandparents do not have glaucoma and why you can get glaucoma?

glaucoma makes you permanently blind.

Glaucoma is an eye disease that leads to damage to the optic nerve in the eye and causes varying degrees of vision loss. The early stages of vision loss are often very subtle and can usually be...

Glaucoma is a group of diseases of the optic nerve involving loss of retinal ganglion cells in a characteristic pattern of optic neuropathy. Although raised intraocular pressure is a significant risk...

You can either be born with glaucoma (congenital) and this can be the primary disease or a secondary one. In the case of it being secondary, it could for example be secondary as part of a rare...

There are several different kinds of glaucoma, some of which respond better to treatment than others. Open angle glaucoma is the most common. With open angle glaucoma, there are no visual...