Ocular hypertension: A comparative follow-up of black and white patients

Forty-four eyes in 25 black patients are compared with 92 eyes of 47 white patients in a population with ocular hypertension followed up for 1 to 12 years in a glaucoma clinic. The black patients present at a younger age than the whites and their mean initial intraocular pressure is significantly higher. The fact that more black ocular hypertensives developed glaucoma-8 eyes (I81 %) in the black population as compared with 5 eyes (5-4%) in the white population-is attributed to these two differences.