青光眼是不可逆盲的主要病因。随着社会、经济、环境的变化以及诊疗手段的进步，青光眼的流行病学特点也在不断的变化。由于不同的青光眼诊断标准和分类系统可以导致不同的流行病学调查结果，而流行病学的特征又指导着临床的干预措施。因此青光眼流行病学状况对青光眼的防治有着重要的意义。本文就我国原发性青光眼流行病学相关研究进展作一综述。

Glaucoma is the primary cause of inreversible blindness.As the change of society, economy and environment, and the improvement of the ways of diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma, the epidemiological feature is also changing incessantly. Since different diagnostic standard and classification system of glaucoma lead to different survey result of epidemiology,and the epidemiological feature gives direction to the clinical intervening measure, the situation of glaucoma epidemiology is of great importance to prophylaxis and treatment of glaucoma. This thesis gives an overview of the progress in research field of primary glaucoma epidemiology in China.