title: Effects of exercise conditioning on aqueous humor flow.
abstract: Twenty-four subjects were studied to determine the effect of a 12-week program of aerobic exercise on the rate of daytime aqueous humor flow. Exercise increased the maximum oxygen consumption from 36 +/- 1.6 (mean +/- SE) to 40 +/- 2.2 ml/kg/min. No changes in resting intraocular pressure (12.4 +/- 0.44 before and 12.2 +/- 0.36 mm Hg after) or resting aqueous flow (3.03 +/- 0.11 before and 3.06 +/- 0.13 mul/min after) were observed. We conclude that a moderate and short-term program of aerobic exercise conditioning does not have a clinically significant effect on the resting rate of aqueous humor flow in young, healthy human subjects.
authors.affiliation: *Mayo Medical School, daggerDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases and double daggerDepartment of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A. Dr. Richard F. Brubaker at the Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, U.S.A.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Dolan
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Kacere
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Squires
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Brubaker