New Delhi, June 6 -- Have you ever noticed a gradual loss in your side vision? Or experienced blurry vision, eye pain or seeing halos around the light? These could be signs of glaucoma, one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness worldwide.

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Nitin Mittal, senior consultant, ophthalmology at Max Super Speciality Hospital in Lucknow, shared, "Glaucoma is a disease of the eye in which there is a gradual progressive damage of the optic nerve, thereby damaging the peripheral visual field and later on the central vision in advanced glaucoma. It may be due to normal or high intraocular pressure in the eye. It may be a silent disease in normal tension glaucoma with no symptoms and accidentally detecte...