[The meteorological influence on cases of acute glaucoma in French-speaking Switzerland in the years 1971-1976 (author's transl)].
The authors present a meteorological study of 45 cases of acute closed-angle glacuoma. Frontal type weather, especially that associated with an invasion of maritime air from the north-west following the passage of a cold front appears able to trigger off an attack in an anatomically predisposed subject.
D000208:Acute Disease; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008685:Meteorological Concepts; D013557:Switzerland
L'influence météorologique sur les cas de glaucome aigu en Suisse Romande (années 1972-1976).