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May 28, 2006
Carrots and Glaucoma
Review of ophthalmology may 2006
.....Carrots appear to decrease glaucoma in Caucasians and African Americans. A random sample of optic nerve photographs and visual fields of 1,274 older, ambulatory women who participated in the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures were graded for glaucoma by three specialists. Consumption of fruits and vegetables was assessed by responses to Block Food Frequency Questionnaires. The relationship between food consumption and glaucoma was evaluated after adjusting for potential confounders such as study site, age, race, smoking and the presence of diabetes; analysis was performed for the group as a whole and for Caucasian and African-American women separatelyWomen who reported eating more than two carrots per week were less likely to have glaucoma than those who ate less than one (p=0.003). This was true for both Caucasians (p=0.014) and African Americans (p=0.044). Also, eating one or more servings of green collards/kale per month was protective (p=0.009) compared to eating less than one, especially among African-American women (p=0.001), and there was a protective trend in African-American women who ate more fresh oranges (p=0.006), more fresh peaches (p=0.021), and more spinach (p=0.013).3449
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