SOME FACTORS AFFECTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF INTRAOCULAR PRESSURES IN A POPULATION
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- 1 February 1972
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Ophthalmologica
- Vol. 50 (1) , 33-46
Abstract
The rise in ocular tension with age is dependent on a concomitant rise in systemic blood pressure. Sex, season, time of day and systemic blood pressure have independent effects on the distribution of applanation pressures in a population, but are to the best of our knowledge not associated with glaucoma. Their combined effects are large enough to support the opinion that they should be taken into account when evaluating the results of applanation tonometry.Keywords
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