Abstract
Abstract Purpose: To determine the prevalence of glaucoma and ocular hypertension (OHT) in a representative sample of Polish young men. Methods: A retrospective study of medical records of Military‐Medical Commission of Lodz, Poland. Intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured in 105017 men examined during period 1993‐2004. We chose for the study a representative sample of 994 individuals. If the IOP was higher than 21 mmHg, the optic nerve and visual field were evaluated. We use the statistic analysis to estimate the results in a whole population of young men examined during researched period. Results: The mean age of researched individuals was 22.46 +/‐ 4.29 . Glaucoma and ocular hypertension were diagnosed in 1.11% subjects. The data collected from Military‐Medical Commission did not differentiate glaucoma to OHT. Extrapolating these results to the whole population we estimate that the prevalence of glaucoma and ocular hypertension is around 1.0% of the population of Polish young men. Conclusions: The study shows that the overall prevalence of glaucoma and ocular hypertension is relatively low (1.11%) in this population of young men. Further investigations are needed to compare these results to the group of women at the same age.
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