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When Glaucoma Runs in the Family: Steps to Lower Your Risk
Glaucoma has a way of moving quietly through families. A parent mentions using eye drops every night. An aunt stops driving after dusk. A grandfather loses peripheral vision and describes it as “looking through a tunnel.” For many people, the family story is vague until an eye doctor asks the right question: “Has anyone in your family been diagnosed with glaucoma?” That question matters. A family history of glaucoma does not mean vision loss is inevitable, but it does ch
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