(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 07 - Getting to know better a still hidden threat such as glaucoma, the disease that puts people at risk and that can be treated, but which is recognized only in half of the cases: this is the goal of the promoted World Glaucoma Week by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (Iapb).
"Don't get distracted. The glaucoma can burn your sight", is the message for the World Week of Iapb Italia Onlus, which promotes the campaign in our country with the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
He estimates that 1.2 million people are at risk of diglaucoma in Italy.
The disease is "the second leading cause of blindness in the world" and is particularly insidious, "because it has no early symptoms in most cases.
The symbolic image of the Italian countryside is that of a fried egg burned at the edges, in which yolk and albumen represent the pupil and iris and the burns at the edges of the progression of glaucoma, the disease gradually "burns" the peripheral sight without the person noticing it, observes Lochef Alessandro Circiello, who lent his name to the countryside in Italy.
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