To what extent is sight loss avoidable in the UK?
Around 50 percent of sight loss in the UK is avoidable or treatable. For example: right now as many as 250,000 people in the UK risk losing their sight simply because they don’t know they have glaucoma. Most of us don’t understand enough about our eye health or the lifestyle choices we make which can have a massive impact on our eye health. Simply knowing that giving up smoking and keeping our weight within a healthy range will give us all the best chance of safeguarding our sight and in some cases half a person’s chances of developing a sight condition that could lead to blindness.
