title: Nocturnal blood pressure and intraocular pressure measurement in glaucoma patients and healthy controls.
abstract: Daytime and nocturnal intraocular pressure (IOP) values and systemic blood pressure (BP) values were compared in 60 non-glaucomatous controls, 54 glaucoma patients with normal visual field, and 46 glaucoma patients with visual field loss. The daytime IOP was measured with a Goldmann applanation tonometer and the nocturnal IOP with a Bio-Rad-Tono-Pen 2. The BP was measured with either a mercury manometer or with a Meditech ABPM-02 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor, which took BP readings at 60 minute intervals. A tendency towards increasing IOP and decreasing BP was detected in the non-glaucomatous controls, within normal limits, and pathological changes of IOP and BP were observed with a significantly high occurrence (5% > P > 2%; Pearson's chi 2-test) in the glaucoma group with visual field loss.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Follmann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Palotás
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Süveges
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Petrovits
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014065:Tonometry, Ocular / Q000379:methods; D014130:Trabeculectomy; D014794:Visual Fields