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Effect of refractive error on the risk of ocular hypertension and open angle glaucoma
Transactions of the Ophthalmological Societies of the United Kingdom
|January 1, 1981
Abstract:
From a case-control study of out-patients attending an ophthalmic clinic no relationship (relative risk = 1) was found between refractive error and ocular tension. The deconfounded effect of refractive error on open angle glaucoma (field loss) increased at higher levels of myopia (relative risk = 1.18; refractive error -0.2) The combined effects of myopia and severe ocular hypertension were found to be synergistic (interactive risk ratio = 2.2).