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Glaucoma

What research knows about glaucoma comes from people who live with it. Here is how many do, what records they usually have, and what sharing yours is worth.

Living with it

76 million

People aged 40 to 80 with glaucoma worldwide, projected for 2020

source

New diagnoses

23.46 per 10 000 person-years

Incidence of primary open-angle glaucoma, ages 40 to 79, 2022

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How rare

Common

about 95 in 10,000 people

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What patients usually have

The records behind glaucoma

  • Glaucoma reassessment visit for stable COAG

    Doctor's letters

    between 12 months and 18 months (low clinical risk), between 6 months and 12 months (high clinical risk)

    guideline
  • Optic nerve head image (stereo photograph or OCT) at diagnosis

    Scan images

    once, at diagnosis

    guideline
  • Prostaglandin analogue eye drop prescription

    Medication history

    long-term daily eye drops (frequency not stated)

    guideline
  • Referral letter with all examination and test results

    Doctor's letters

    once, at referral

    guideline

What sharing it is worth

$74

per licence for a complete story and one year of these records, $74 to $870

Value your own data
  • Your health story$23how
  • Doctor's lettersx2$6.07how
  • Scan imagesx1no price yethow
  • Medication historyx1$2.33how
  • Richness premium (3 kinds of data linked)x2.33how

A benchmark from published prices, not a promise: contributors earn a share each time a licence includes their data. How the benchmark works · What health data sells for

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