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THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The burden of glaucoma is improving, but men have a persistently higher burden than women, according to a study published online Jan. 7 in Acta Ophthalmologica<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Xin Ye, from Wenzhou Medical University in China, and colleagues examined the association between sex and the global burden of glaucoma using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The association between sex difference in age-standardized DALY rates and the human development index (HDI) was explored.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that between 1990 and 2017, globally, changes in glaucoma DALY number and crude rates were similar for both sexes. From 1990 to 2017, age-standardized DALY rates decreased consistently, from 10.7 to 9.4 among men and from 8.8 to 8.0 among women after controlling for population size and age structure. The global average age-standardized DALY rates were 11.6 \u00b1 8.6 and 14.9 \u00b1 12.1 in women and men, respectively, in 2017. The sex difference in age-standardized DALY was significant in 195 countries in 2017. Men had higher rates than women, and this difference increased with age. For low- and high-HDI countries, age-standardized DALY rates were higher among men than women. There were inverse correlations for the difference (male minus female) in age-standardized DALY rates and the female-to-male age-standardized DALY rate ratios with HDI.<\/p>\n
“Despite health progress in glaucoma in both sexes, there is little improvement in sex differences in DALY rates of glaucoma through 2017, with a higher burden in men,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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