Cupping of the optic disc in the Jamaican population

ABSTRACT

The cup/disc of the optic nerves of 289 normal eyes of 145 persons were studied. The frequency of wide physiological cups in a Jamaican group was compared with eight other groups. The Jamaican group had an incidence of wide physiological cups that exceeded that of the others by two or three times. This high incidence of wide cups in the normal Jamaican population has profound implications for the management of glaucoma in Jamaica. The high incidence of wide, non-glaucomatous, cupping can be explained on the basis of racial factors (AU)