Juvenile glaucoma, race, and refraction

Article Abstract:

Sixty-eight patients between the ages of 10 and 35 suffered from excess pressure inside the eyeball (ocular hypertension). Twenty-five simply had ocular hypertension and 43 had juvenile, a disease in which ocular hypertension causes progressive degeneration of vision. Forty-seven percent of the glaucoma patients, but only 20 percent of the ocular glaucoma patients, were black. The black patients who came for medical attention were younger than the white patients. Fifty-nine percent of the ocular hypertensive patients and seventy-three percent of the glaucoma patients were nearsighted (myopic). In patients with more than a certain degree of myopia, glaucoma-related ocular damage occurred in all of the eyes of black patients, but in only 52 percent of white patients. This suggests that myopia is strongly associated with juvenile glaucoma. Young black patients with ocular hypertension, especially those with myopia, are more susceptible than whites to glaucoma-related ocular damage.

Health aspects, Case studies, African American youth, Disease susceptibility, Open-angle glaucoma, Pediatric ophthalmology

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Impact of New Technologies in Medicine: call for papers for the 1999 Global Theme Issue

Article Abstract:

The editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) are calling for researchers and physicians to submit articles for the 1999 Global Theme Issue "Impact of New Technologies in Medicine." Technology in medicine contributes greatly to diagnosis and treatment, but presents moral, ethical, economic, and patient satisfaction issues which must be addressed.

Publishing industry, Analysis, Ethical aspects, Technological innovations, JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association (Periodical), Medical technology

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Race and the Limits of Administrative Data

Article Abstract:

Researchers must be careful when using large administrative databases containing patient data. Because these databases include information about huge numbers of patients, small effects can be meaningful. However, the effect may not necessarily be real and the database may not contain enough data to determine this.

Editorial, Usage, Information management, Medical research, Centralized databases

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