Poorqualitysleep may be linked to heightened risk of glaucoma, irreversible sight loss BMJ_Open
Poor quality sleep, including too much or too little shuteye, daytime sleepiness, and snoring, may be linked to a heightened risk of developing irreversible sight loss , suggests a large UK Biobank study published in the open access journalThe findings underscore the need for sleep therapy in people at high risk of the disease as well as eye checks among those with chronicGlaucoma is a leading cause of blindness and will likely affect an estimated 112 million people worldwide by 2040.
To explore these issues further, the researchers set out to ascertain the risk of glaucoma among people with different sleep behaviors: insomnia; too much or too little sleep; night or morning chronotypes ;They drew on 409,053 participants in the UK Biobank, all of whom were aged between 40 and 69 in 2006-10 when recruited, and who had provided details of their sleep behaviors.
Background information on potentially influential factors was retrieved from the questionnaires filled in at recruitment: age , sex, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, lifestyle, weight , and residential area level of deprivation. Compared to those with a healthy sleep pattern, snorers and those who experienced daytime sleepiness were 10% more likely to have glaucoma, while insomniacs and those with a short/longThe results were similar when categorized by different types of glaucoma.
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