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No matter how we manage our health, efficacy, risks and costing are top concernsObesity women seem had protective effect to open-angle glaucoma risk
Although most people with obesity linked to several diseases risk, however, for obesity women seem had benefits to reduce the risk of open-angle glaucoma (OAG).
This suggestion at least based on analysis of 3939 participants, which were had no OAG in study entry that began between in 1991 and 1993 of the Rotterdam Study.
Archived in Opthalmol that published on February 14, 2011, the findings said that there was a significant relationship between body mass index (BMI) and intraocular pressure in women participants.
According to the results, each 1-unit increase in BMI was associated with a 7% decreased risk of developing OAG and this is not influenced by other potential factors, such as smoking habit, alcohol consumption, intraocular pressure (IOP), ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
However, this is not happened in men.
As the findings surprises the study authors, they though female hormones had plays a role in the OAG pathophysiology, and therefore further research is needed to clarify this inverse association between BMI with OAG.
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