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SUBMITTER: Aguilar-Rivera M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7248824 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aguilar-Rivera Marcelo M Erudaitius Dieanira T DT Wu Vincent M VM Tantiongloc Justin C JC Kang Dae Y DY Coleman Todd P TP Baxter Sally L SL Weinreb Robert N RN
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 20200430 9
Glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness, affects >70 million people worldwide. Lowering intraocular pressure via topical administration of eye drops is the most common first-line therapy for glaucoma. This treatment paradigm has notoriously high non-adherence rates: ranging from 30% to 80%. The advent of smart phone enabled technologies creates promise for improving eyedrop adherence. However, previous eyedrop electronic monitoring solutions had awkward medication bottle adjuncts a ...[more]