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Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide and, in the US, disproportionately affects people from racial and ethnic minority groups. Glaucoma prevalence has not been estimated for the US in more than a decade. The objective of this meta-analysis1 was to estimate glaucoma and vision-affecting glaucoma prevalence by demographic factors and US state and county for the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention's Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System. PubMed was searched for population-based studies of glaucoma prevalence published between 1991 and 2016. The results were that for 2022, an estimated 4.22 million people in the US were…