THE PREVALENE OF PRIMARY OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA (POAG) IN ITALY

Data on prevalence of POAG in Italy have been collected between 1986 and 1994 during a series of study in Ponza, Priver-no, Ventotene, Bollate, Casteldaccia and Egna-Neumarkt The prevalence of POAG among the population aged 40 years and over varies from 1.1% in Bollate to 7.3% in Ventotene. From the results of the studies it is possible to hypotize that the prevalence of POAG in Italy is 0.5% in the population aged 40-49 yrs,