Table 1.

Characteristics of selected population-based studies utilized for calculating estimated number of persons with primary open-angle glaucoma in the United States.

Selected Studies	BES10	BES10	LALES4	Singapore Study5	EDPRG2
Race/Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic White	African American	Hispanic	Asian	Other Minorities
Sample Size	2913	2395	6142	1232	23012*
Sex (women/men)	1.3	1.7	1.4	1.2	1.4
Age Range (years)	40+	40+	40+	40+	40+
Overall Prevalence of POAG in percent (95% CI)	1.7 (1.1–2.3)	5.6 (4.6–6.6)	4.7 (4.2,5.3)	2.4 (1.6,3.2)	1.86 (1.8–2.0)

Abbreviations: POAG, primary open-angle glaucoma; BES, the Baltimore Eye Survey; LALES, the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study; EDPRG, the Eye Disease Prevalence Research Group; Other Minorities; American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander; CI, confidence interval.

^*The EDPRG “other minorities” prevalence is an un-weighted pooled prevalence rate derived from the sum of all participants from non-Hispanic White, African American and Hispanics used in the EDPRG estimate of the prevalence of POAG.²