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  • Glaucoma is a leading cause of vision loss.
  • Impaired reading performance is a common complaint among glaucoma patients.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if adjusting contrast, line spacing, or font size can enhance reading speed in individuals with glaucoma.
  • To compare reading performance between glaucoma patients and healthy controls.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study involving 35 glaucoma patients and 32 healthy controls.
  • Reading speed was assessed using the Minnesota Low Vision Reading (MNREAD) test under various contrast, line spacing, and font size conditions.
  • Regression analyses were used to determine the impact of these visual parameters on reading speed (words per minute).

Main Results:

  • Glaucoma patients exhibited significantly slower reading speeds than control participants across most tested conditions.
  • Increasing contrast from 10% to 50% was strongly associated with faster reading speeds in glaucoma patients (P < 0.001).
  • No significant improvements in reading speed were observed with increased font size or line spacing.

Conclusions:

  • Glaucoma patients demonstrate reduced reading speed compared to their healthy peers.
  • Optimizing contrast is a viable strategy to improve reading performance in glaucoma.
  • Font size and line spacing adjustments do not appear to significantly benefit reading speed for this population.