Stroke, myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular events are more common in neovascular glaucoma, potentially pointing to an increased cardiovascular risk profile among these patients, according to data published in Scientific Reports.“This project actually started from a clinical impression,” study author Jaime Levy, MD, ophthalmologist at Hadassah University Medical Center, Israel, told Healio. “In daily practice, we often felt that patients with neovascular glaucoma were not only visually very sick, but also systemically more ill than the ‘typical’