{"id":39667,"date":"2024-01-06T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T07:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/patologia\/glaucoma\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T16:57:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:57:40","slug":"glaucoma","status":"publish","type":"patologia","link":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/patologia\/glaucoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Glaucoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"more\"><span class=\"morecontent\"><strong>Glaucoma is a serious eye disease that can cause blindness<\/strong>, mainly due to increased pressure inside the eye that damages the <strong>optic nerve<\/strong>.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more\"><span class=\"morecontent\">The disease can occur at any age, but is much more common after age 60 and in the elderly.<br \/>\nIt affects men and women equally, while it has a clear ethnic preference, affecting the African American and Hispanic American population more frequently and in more aggressive forms.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are several forms of glaucoma, the main ones being the  <strong>glaucoma<\/strong>  &#8220;<strong>open angle<\/strong>&#8221; (which is the most common form among the elderly) and the  <strong>glaucoma<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>closed angle<\/strong>&#8220;, where angle refers to the area of the eye between the iris and cornea, from which aqueous humor normally flows, on whose volume the eye&#8217;s internal pressure depends.<\/p>\n<p>A third type of glaucoma is <strong>congenital glaucoma<\/strong>, due to an eye malformation present from birth and characterized by very early onset.<br \/>\nChildren with congenital glaucoma usually have large eyes because the heavy pressure within the eyeball results in &#8220;wearing down&#8221; of the tissues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13508,"template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"corpo":[1766,1771],"specializzazione":[],"class_list":["post-39667","patologia","type-patologia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","corpo-eyes","corpo-nervous-system","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"schede":null,"relazione_categoria_post":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/patologia\/39667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/patologia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/patologia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/patologia\/39667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40355,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/patologia\/39667\/revisions\/40355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"corpo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corpo?post=39667"},{"taxonomy":"specializzazione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specializzazione?post=39667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}