title: Water drinking and outflow facility.
abstract: In a series of patients with ocular hypertension, the effect of water drinking upon pressure and outflow facility was determined by impression (Schiotz) tonometry and tonography. The statistical facility-depressing effect of water drinking revealed by numerous earlier studies was confirmed, but found to be too small to be readily demonstrable in the individual eye. The water-drinking test in patients with primary ocular hypertension presents a situation in which tonography adds little to the information provided by tonometry.
mesh_terms: D001082:Aqueous Humor / Q000502:physiology*; D004326:Drinking; D007839:Functional Laterality; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D013997:Time Factors; D014065:Tonometry, Ocular; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D014867:Water