Birth Control pill may double in Glaucoma risk

Researchers have been doing a study on over 3,000 women who are on birth control. A recent study has shown that 1 and 2 percent of women who are a bit older, in their forties or so are becoming more likely to get Glaucoma. It is blindness in the eyes. They realized that these risks come in to play after being on birth control for more than 3 years. This is can either help women so that doctors can fix the problem or make it worse and more women will be likely to get it. Doctors however want to stop it now, and researchers from the University of California-San Francisco, Duke University and Third Affiliated hospital of Nanchang University presented this risk to the American Association of Ophthalmology. Researchers say that young women on the pill should not be worried, but once on it for three plus years, talk to your doctor about the risk.




http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/11/18/birth-control-pills-may-double-glaucoma-risk/