Impact of Smoking on Visual Field Progression in a Long-term Clinical Follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate the effect of smoking on rates of progressive visual field (VF) damage over time in glaucoma.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Participants

Five hundred eleven eyes of 354 patients with glaucoma followed up from multicenter glaucoma registries.

Methods

In this longitudinal study, 354 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma with a minimum of 3 years of follow-up and 5 VF tests were enrolled from the Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study and the African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study. Univariate and multivariate linear mixed models were used to investigate the effects of smoking on rates of 24-2 VF mean deviation loss. Visual field progression was defined using pointwise linear and significant negative VF mean deviation loss.

SUBMITTER: Mahmoudinezhad G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10002405 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature