NEI Research News

Researchers report that the overall prevalence of glaucoma in Mexican-Americans is between reported rates for Blacks and Whites.

A research study of the Mexican-American population over age 40 found that the rate of diabetes in this group is 20 percent–almost twice that of non-Hispanic Whites–and that 15 percent of those with diabetes did not know that they had the disease...

Un estudio realizado en un grupo de mexicano-estadounidenses de 40 años o más determinó que la tasa de diabetes en este grupo es del 20 por ciento (tasa casi dos veces mayor que la correspondiente a blancos no hispanos) y que el 15 por ciento de las...

Researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have determined that health education programs can substantially increase the rates of dilated eye exams for African Americans with diabetes

Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have discovered that black and white patients with advanced glaucoma respond differently to two surgical treatments for the disease. A paper detailing these findings is published in the July 1998