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In the January 2001 issue of the ARCHIVES, Leske et al¹ published an interesting report from the Barbados Incidence Study of Eye Diseases. There have been few population-based studies reporting longitudinal data on open-angle glaucoma (OAG). The Barbados Incidence Study of Eye Diseases and the study by Bengtsson,² in Dalby, Sweden, report data on very different populations. It might be interesting to compare these data with a population-based cohort study from the central part of Sweden, where pseudoexfoliation is quite common.³

From 1984-1986, a population-based survey of 760 people (age range, 65-74 years) was conducted in the municipality of Tierp, central Sweden.⁴ For a diagnosis of definite OAG, a visual field defect was required. The prevalence of OAG was 5.7% (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.1-7.3), which is higher than the figures reported for comparable surveys carried out on white populations. Pseudoexfoliation was present in 16 of the 45 prevalent cases.

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