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Leske, M. C. (School of Medicine, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794), F. Ederer and M. Podgor. Estimating Incidence from age-specific prevalence in glaucoma. Am J Epidemiol 1981: 113; 606–13. A simple method is presented to estimate incidence from age-specific prevalence data for diseases that are irreversible and do not affect mortality risk. The application of the model is illustrated with data on primary open angle glaucoma.
Leske et al. (1981) studied this question.