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Celebrity touch to Glaucoma Awareness Walk’,
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Tollywood personalities today joined L V Prasad Eye Institute\'s ‘Glaucoma Awareness Walk’, to spread awareness among common man and to eliminate the prospects of irreversible blindness if ignored and avoided
Tollywood personalities today joined L V Prasad Eye Institute's ‘Glaucoma Awareness Walk’, to spread awareness among common man and to eliminate the prospects of irreversible blindness if ignored and avoided
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With focus on the theme that Staying informed is the first step to tackle glaucoma & regular eye check-up is all it takes to prevent it.the Celebs & Doctors exhort people to be aware of glaucoma and take care of their eyes
Telugu Actor Nagineedu; Film director Indraganti Mohan Krishna; Film director & actor Avasarala Srinivas; Late Akkineni Nageshwar Rao's daughter Naga Susheela and Tollywood Heroine Isha; Mr. Ramesh Prasad of Prasad Labs; Dr. G. N. Rao, Chair, L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI); and others participated in the ‘Glaucoma Awareness Walk’ organised by L.V.Prasad Eye Institute on Sunday at Jubilee Hills.
The Walk was organised as part of the Glaucoma Awareness Week being held from March 8th – 14th, 2015, to build awareness on the eye disease that affects both adults and children. The theme for this year is ‘BIG: BEAT INVISIBLE GLAUCOMA’ and the focus is on early detection and prevention of glaucoma through family screening.
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Currently, in India, every 8th individual or nearly 40 million aged 40 years or older either has glaucoma or is at risk of developing the disease. 11.2 million Indians suffer from the disease with 1.1 million blind, including children. Glaucoma more commonly affects people beyond the age of 40 years. High myopes, diabetics and those with a positive family history have higher risk of developing glaucoma.
Ms. Naga Susheela, daughter of Late Sri Akkineni Nageshwar Rao, said, my father had Glaucoma and he took special care by undergoing regular checkups and treatment, that is how we all are aware of it and take extra precaution, as Glaucoma is hereditary.
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.61 million persons worldwide have glaucoma and that is expected to rise to almost 80 million by the year 2020. Blindness from glaucoma is 80% preventable, yet almost 7 million people are blind from glaucoma in the world, and 2/3 of the world's blind and visually impaired are women.
Ninety percent of Glaucoma in the country goes detected , mostly due to lack of awareness. Most patients are unaware that:
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