Abstract
Weather changes raise a major concern during last decades, in all areas, including their consequences on public health. The impact of changing weather on eye pathology was not widely studied. Ocular diseases have a major impact on the quality of life and on working ability. Thus we considered of interest to investigate the possibility of any correlation between meteorological factors and ocular diseases. Glaucoma is known to be a degenerative multifactorial eye disease, which may lead to blindness. Its pathogeny still remains controversial for ophthalmologists worldwide. This work points out the correlation found between weather factors and acute glaucoma. Our study included 262 cases of patients, presented in Ophthalmology Department from Constanta Emergency Hospital, between 2002 and 2013. As weather element, the phase’s survey offers the opportunity to study glaucoma during stable or changing weather, because it provides the advantage of synthetically vision on the situation of all meteorological factors. Weather changes turned out to have an obvious role in generating acute glaucoma.
Highlights
The last decades, due to permanent technical progress, the study and prediction of the weather have been much improved, allowing a more and more precise evaluation of eventually existing correlations between environment and different aspects of human life and activity.The knowledge of some existing correlations between meteorological factors and health state provides us ways to better prevent some acute and severe conditions, such as acute glaucoma [1,2,3] and ways to better control chronic diseases evolutions.The idea of studying the impact of weather changes on acute glaucoma came to our attention under the circumstances of the last decades tendency of increased frequency of the extreme meteorological phenomenon
We considered worth of interest to see the situation for Constanta region, on the Black Sea coast, by studying the cases of acute glaucoma which occurred during the 2002-2013 period
Known as acute glaucoma, is defined as an extreme high intraocular pressure, which results from a sudden adherence of the iris to the corneoscleral trabeculum, followed by sudden increase of the outflow resistance for the aqueous humor [7]
Summary
The last decades, due to permanent technical progress, the study and prediction of the weather have been much improved, allowing a more and more precise evaluation of eventually existing correlations between environment and different aspects of human life and activity. The idea of studying the impact of weather changes on acute glaucoma came to our attention under the circumstances of the last decades tendency of increased frequency of the extreme meteorological phenomenon. The role of weather parameters in angle closure glaucoma have already been revealed in some studies [4,5,6]. We considered worth of interest to see the situation for Constanta region, on the Black Sea coast, by studying the cases of acute glaucoma which occurred during the 2002-2013 period
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