A new study from City, University of London has found men are more likely than women to ignore symptoms of eye diseases and not seek early medical attention until the disease is significant, which resulted in men being 16 percent more likely to present with advanced vision loss at eye clinics.
After analyzing about 153,000 visual field testes from over 32,000 patients in England, researchers also found the overall the overall proportion of patients with advanced visual field loss at referral to glaucoma clinics was slightly higher in men than in women.
Researchers believe their findings are noteworthy as they present a public health challenge for glaucoma and other diseases that benefit from early detection.
The study was recently published in the journal Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.
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Source: City, University of London