Patent ID: 8642644

Claim:
A method of reducing intraocular pressure, the method comprising administering to a human or other animal a safe and effective amount of a compound derived from the esterification of a carboxylate functionality of a drug moiety with a sugar alcohol selected from the group consisting of threitol, erythritol, arabinitol, xylitol, ribitol, lyxitol, glucitol, galactitol, mannitol, gulitol, altitol, allitol, iditol, talitol, 2-deoxyribitol, 2-deoxyglucitol, 2-deoxyxylitol, and a mixture thereof, the drug moiety comprising at least one of a phenoxyacetic acid, a cinnamic acid, and a mixture thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.