Prevention of angle-closure glaucoma: balancing risk and benefit

Paul J Foster^{1

2}, Wai Siene Ng³, Winifred P Nolan^{4

5}, Luke Tanner⁶, Gus Gazzard^{4

7}, Alex C Day^{4

7}, Roshini Sanders^{8

9}, Barny Foot¹⁰, John F Salmon¹¹, Augusto Azuara-Blanco¹²

Affiliations

¹ Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. p.foster@ucl.ac.uk.
² UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK. p.foster@ucl.ac.uk.
³ University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
⁴ Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁵ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
⁷ UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK.
⁸ Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfirmline, Fife, UK.
⁹ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹⁰ Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London, UK.
¹¹ Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
¹² Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Editorial

Paul J Foster et al. Eye (Lond). 2022 Dec.

. 2022 Dec;36(12):2229-2231.

doi: 10.1038/s41433-021-01881-8. Epub 2022 Jun 20.

¹ Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. p.foster@ucl.ac.uk.
² UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK. p.foster@ucl.ac.uk.
³ University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
⁴ Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁵ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
⁷ UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK.
⁸ Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfirmline, Fife, UK.
⁹ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹⁰ Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London, UK.
¹¹ Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
¹² Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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