Get your eyes tested to beat glaucoma
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A Bexhill woman is urging people with a family history of glaucoma to get their eyes tested and save their sight.
For this year’s National Glaucoma Awareness Week (June 6-12), the International Glaucoma Association (IGA) is focusing on the need for close relatives of a known glaucoma patient to have regular eye checks to prevent possible sight loss.
Parents, children, brothers or sisters are up to four times more likely to develop glaucoma, when compared to people without a family history of glaucoma.
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