{"id":1474,"date":"2023-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/increased-systemic-pressure-increases-the-chances-of-glaucoma\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T22:00:00","slug":"increased-systemic-pressure-increases-the-chances-of-glaucoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/increased-systemic-pressure-increases-the-chances-of-glaucoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased systemic pressure increases the chances of glaucoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that elevated blood pressure can make<br \/>\neyes more susceptible to damage from increased intraocular pressure,increasing<br \/>\nthe risk of developing glaucoma. Although previous research has shown quite<br \/>\nthe opposite.<br \/>\nScientists from the University of Melbourne examined how vulnerable<br \/>\nit was the eye on increased intraocular pressure in 3 different<br \/>\nmice groups. At temporarily high pressure (acute hypertension), at elevated pressure<br \/>\nfor 4 weeks (chronic hypertension) and at normal pressure.<br \/>\nInitially, hypertension was shown to protect the retina from changes<br \/>\nin blood flow in the group with acute hypertension, but this ability<br \/>\nwas lost after a few weeks. This means that having increased<br \/>\npressure for longer disrupted the eye&#8217;s ability to<br \/>\nwithstand high pressure. It altered the ocular blood vessels in such a way<br \/>\nwho could not react to changes in blood flow when<br \/>\nthe pressure was increasing.<br \/>\nThe research was published in Investigative Ophthalmology &amp; Visual Science (IOVS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that elevated blood pressure can make<br \/>\neyes more susceptible to damage from increased intraocular pressure, increasing the<br \/>\nthe risk of developing glaucoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eye-diseases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}