MEH Glaucoma

8. In this condition, eye pressure is above the ‘normal’ level, but there is no detectable damage to the field of vision or optic nerve.
10. When you have an eye health check the _____ must, by law, examine the back of your eye.
14. People with this uncontrolled high blood sugar condition may be at increased risk of developing glaucoma.
15. Early ___ of glaucoma will enable the vast majority of people to retain useful sight for life.
16. How often should you see an optician/optometrist?
17. People with ____ sight are known to be at increased risk of developing angle closure.

1. This part of the eye is damaged in glaucoma.
2. Looking at the appearance of the main nerve in the eye, called the optic nerve.
3. Checking the field of vision.
4. Leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world and silent thief of sight.
5. The total area in which objects can be seen in the peripheral vision as you focus your eyes on a central point.
6. People with ____ sight are at increased risk of developing glaucoma, and should ensure that they are regularly tested.
7. If you have a close blood relative with the condition, you are at an increased risk of developing glaucoma.
9. People of African-Caribbean ____ are at four times greater risk of developing primary open angle glaucoma, when compared with those of a European origin.
11. This aspect of you vision is affected first in glaucoma.
12. Measuring the pressure in the eye.
13. Primary open angle glaucoma becomes much more common with increasing ___