The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
even with all of our treatments all of these treatments stepping patients through all of this about 10 15 even 20% of patients will lose very meaningful functional vision and maybe 5 10 15% of patients especially depending where you are in the world will will go blind from glaucoma
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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meaningful functional vision and maybe 5 10 15% of patients especially depending where you are in the world will will go blind from glaucoma um including in you know quote unquote developed countries uh there's still a very significant cohort of patients that go blind legally blind and then you know absolute blindness I can't even tell if the lights are on in the room uh so it's it's it's devastating it's Insidious it's hard to detect early um and uh so glaucoma is still a tough one even with all of the treatments that we have