Ocular hypertension is the leading risk factor for glaucoma, which affects 70 million people worldwide. But did you know that different sleep behaviors, such as sleep duration, chronotype pattern, insomnia symptoms, subjective daytime sleepiness, and snoring, can also increase the risk of glaucoma? To understand this, researchers analyzed the data of 409,053 participants (mean age = 57 years; 44.95% male) from the UK Biobank who were recruited between 2006 and 2010 and followed them for 11 years for the diagnosis of glaucoma. During the follow-up (mean follow-up = 10.7 years), 8690 glaucoma cases were reported.
An increased risk of glaucoma was found in individuals with unhealthy sleep patterns compared to those with healthy sleep patterns; chronotype sleep patterns were not associated with an increased risk of glaucoma (Table 1). Table 1 . Association between unhealthy sleep patterns…
