Climate Changes and Vision Loss a Possible Problem of Public Health

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.

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