title: Correlation between hand preference and intraocular pressure from right- and left-eyes in right- and left-handers.
abstract: To test whether there is a relationship between handedness and the intraocular pressure and there is a lateralization in the intraocular pressure, the intraocular pressures of the right- and left-eyes were compared in right- and left-handed students. The intraocular pressures were higher in the right-eye than in the left-eye in men, right-handers, and right-eyed subjects; there was no right-left difference in females, left-handers, left-eyed, and both-eyed subjects. The intraocular pressure of right- and left-eyes was higher in left-handers than right-handers. And there were significant negative correlations between hand preference and the intraocular pressure of both right- and left-eyes. We have concluded that the dominant eye has higher intraocular pressure compared to the nondominant one, and there is a relationship between hand preference and the intraocular pressure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Medical School, Medical Faculty, Atatürk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey. senoldane@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Senol
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dane
authors.forename: Kenan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gümüştekin
authors.forename: Ahmet Taylan
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Yazici
authors.forename: Orhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Baykal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics