Visualizing the Consistency of Clinical Characteristics that Distinguish Healthy Persons, Glaucoma Suspect Patients, and Manifest Glaucoma Patients.

Purpose: To use factor analysis to visualize and assess the reproducibility and consistency of clinical quantitative parameters that can optimally distinguish among healthy, glaucoma suspect, and manifest glaucoma patients at a cross-sectional level and thus to describe the transition of quantitative change among the diagnostic categories.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Participants: The medical records of healthy, glaucoma suspect, and manifest glaucoma patients (diagnosed by expert clinicians) seen at the Centre for Eye Health in 2015 (n = 148, n = 664, and n = 129, respectively) and 2018 (n = 242, n = 464, and n = 126, respectively) were reviewed.