Ethnicity and glaucoma: Higher environmental temperatures may accelerate the onset, and increase the prevalence, of primary open-angle glaucoma

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 432-437

  Weale, Robert A ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CENTRAL AMERICA; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ETHNICITY; GLAUCOMA; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; LINEST PROGRAM; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MIGRATION; ONSET AGE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HEAT; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34249659057     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.12.020     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Johnson G.J. The glaucomas. Ch. 14. In: Johnson G.J., Minassian D.C., Weale R.A., and West S. (Eds). The epidemiology of eye disease. 2nd ed. (2003), Arnold, London
2. Wilensky J.T., Gandhi N., and Pan T. Racial influence in open-angle glaucoma. Ann Ophthalmol 10 (1978) 1398-1402
3. Tielsch J.M., Sommer A., Katz J., et al. Racial variations in the prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma: the Baltimore survey. J Am Med Acad 266 (1991) 369-374
4. Leske M.C., Connell A.M.S., Schachat A.P., et al. Prevalence of open angle glaucoma. Arch Ophthal 112 (1994) 921-929
5. Quigley H.A. Number of people with glaucoma worldwide. Brit J Ophthalmol 80 (1996) 389-393
6. Tomarev S.I., Wistow G., Raymond V., et al. Gene expression profile of the human trabecular meshwork: NEIBank sequence tag analysis. Invest Ophthal Vis Sci 44 (2003) 2588-2596
7. Lovatt E., and Sir C. Principles of human physiology. 11th ed. (1952), J.A. Churchill, London p. 1053
8. Trevor-Roper P.D. The eye and its disorders (1974), Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford p. 102
9. Gulvant P., Baskaran M., Vijaya L., Hansen B.C., Joseph I.S., Watkins R.J., et al. Comparison of pulsatile ocular blood flow in Indians and Europeans. Eye 19 (2005) 1163-1168
10. Gainer J.V., Stein C.M., Neal T., Vaughan D.E., and Brown N.J. Interactive effect of ethnicity and ACE insertion/deletion polymorphism on vascular reactivity. Hypertension 37 (2001) 46
11. Foster P.J., Buhrmann R., Quigley H.A., et al. The definition and classification of glaucoma in prevalence surveys. Brit J Ophthalmol 86 (2002) 238-242
12. Wolfs R.C., Borger P.H., Ramrattan R.S., et al. Changing views on open-angle glaucoma: definitions and prevalences - the Rotterdam Study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 41 (2000) 3309-3321
13. Kroese M., and Burton H. Primary open angle glaucoma. The need for a consensus case definition. J Epidemiol Commun Health 57 (2003) 752-754
14. Deutscher Wetterdienst Central Office. Climatological data. Offenbach and Seewetter: Hamburg. 1992.
15. Jonasson F., and Thordarson K. Prevalence of ocular disease and blindness in a rural area in the Eastern region of Iceland during 1980 through 1984. Acta Ophthalmol Suppl 187 65 (1987) 40-43
16. Jonasson F., Damji K.F., Arnasson A., et al. Prevalence of open-angle glaucoma in Iceland: Reykjavik Eye study. Eye 17 (2003) 747-753
17. Ekström C., and Haglund B. Chronic open-angle glaucoma and advanced visual field defects in a defined population. Acta Ophthalmol (København) 69 (1991) 574-580
18. Bengtson B. The prevalence of glaucoma. Brit J Ophthalmol 65 (1981) 46-49
19. Ringvold A., Blika S., Elsås T., et al. The Middle-Norway eye screening study. Acta Ophthalmol 69 (1991) 273-280
20. Nizankowska M.H., and Kaczmarek R. Prevalence of glaucoma in the Wroclaw population. The Wroclaw epidemiological study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 12 (2005) 363-371
21. Coffey M., Reidy A., Wormald R., et al. Prevalence of glaucoma in the West of Ireland. Brit J Ophthalmol 77 (1993) 17-21
22. Dielemans I., Vingerling J.R., Wolfs R.C.W., et al. The prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma in a population-base study in The Netherlands. Ophthalmology 101 (1994) 1851-1855
23. Hollows F.C., and Graham P.A. Intra-ocular pressure, glaucoma, and glaucoma suspects in a defined population. Brit J Ophthalmol 50 (1966) 570-586
24. Reidy A., Minassian D.C., Vafidis G., et al. Prevalence of serious eye disease and visual impairment in a north London population: population based, cross sectional study. Brit Med J 316 (1998) 1643-1646
25. Bonomi L., Marchini G., Marraffa M., et al. Prevalence of glaucoma and intraocular distribution in a defined population. Ophthalmology 105 (1998) 209-215
26. Klein B.E.K., Klein R., and Sponsel W.E. Prevalence of glaucoma. Ophthalmology 99 (1992) 1499-1504
27. Mitchell P., Smith W., Attebo K., and Healey P.R. Prevalence of open-angle glaucoma in Australia. Ophthalmology 103 (1996) 1661-1669
28. Shiose Y., Kitazawa Y., Tsukahara S., Akamatu T., Mizokami K., Futa R., et al. Epidemiology of glaucoma in Japan - a Natoionwide survey. Jpn J Ophthalmol 35 (1991) 137-155
29. Cedrone C., Culasso F., Cesareo M., et al. Prevalence of glaucoma in Ponza, Italy. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 4 (1997) 59-72
30. Salmon J.F., Mermoud A., Ivey A., Swanevelder S.A., et al. The prevalence of primary angle closure glaucoma and open angle glaucoma in Mamre. Arch Ophthalmol 111 (1993) 1263-1269
31. Kozobolis V.P., Detorakis E.T., Tsilimbaris M., et al. Crete, Greece glaucoma study. J Glauc 9 (2000) 143-149
32. Buhrmann R.R., Quigley H.A., Barron Y., et al. Prevalence of glaucoma in a rural East African population. Invest Ophthal Vis Sci 41 (2000) 40-48
33. Rochford A.P., and Johnson G.J. Glaucoma in Zulus. A population-based cross-sectional survey in a rural district in South Africa. Arch Ophthalmol 120 (2002) 471-478
34. Hyams S.W., Keroub C., and Pokotilo E. The computer in clinical research. Prevalence of glaucoma. Doc Ophthalmol 43 (1977) 17-21
35. Dandona L., Dandona R., Srinivas M., Mandal P., John R.K., McCarty C.A., et al. Open-angle glaucoma in an urban population in southern India: the Andhra Pradesh eye disease study. Ophthalmology 107 (2000) 1702-1709
36. Proyecto V.E.R. The prevalence of glaucoma in a population-based study of Hispanic subjects. Arch Ophthalmol 119 (2001) 1819-1826
37. Neumann E., and Zauberman H. Glaucoma survey in Liberia. Am J Ophthalmol 59 (1965) 8-12
38. Mason R.P., Kosoko O., Wilson M.R., et al. National survey of the prevalence and risk factors of glaucoma in St. Lucia, West Indies. Ophthalmology 96 (1989) 1363-1368
39. Wallace J., and Lovell H.G. Glaucoma and intraocular pressure in Jamaica. Am J Ophthalmol 67 (1969) 93-100
40. Leske M.C., Connell A.M.S., Schachat A.P., and Hyman L. Prevalence of open angle glaucoma. The Barbados Eye Study Group. Arch Ophthalmol 112 (1994) 921-929
41. Ntim-Amponsah C.T., Amoaku W.M.K., Ofosu-Amaah S., Ewusi R.K., Idirisuriya-Khair R., Nyastepe-Coo E., et al. Prevalence of glaucoma in an African population. Eye 18 (2004) 491-497
42. Bourne R.R.A., Sukudom P., Foster P.J., et al. Prevalence of glaucoma in Thailand: a population based survey in Rom Klao District. Bangkok Brit J Ophthalmol 87 (2003) 1069-1074
43. Murdoch I.E., Cousens S.N., Babaloia O.E., Yang Y.F., Abiose A., and Jones B.R. Glaucoma prevalence may not be uniformly high in all "black" populations. Afr J Med Med Sci 30 (2001) 337
44. Ramakrishnan R., Nirmalan P.K., Krishnadas R., Thudastraj R.D., Tielsch J.M., Katz J., et al. Glaucoma in a rural population of Southern India. Ophthalmology 110 (2003) 1484-1490
45. Becker B., Shin D.H., Cooper D.G., et al. The pigment dispersion syndrome. Am J Ophthalmol 83 (1977) 161-166
46. Siddiqui Y., Ten Hulzen R.D., Cameron J.D., et al. What is the risk of developing pigmentary glaucoma from pigment dispersion syndrome?. Am J Ophthalmol 135 (2003) 794-799
47. Rahman M.M., Rahman N., Foster P.J., et al. The prevalence of glaucoma in Bangladesh: a population based survey in Dhaka division. Brit J Ophthalmol 88 (2004) 1493-1497