Glaucomatous visual field loss associated with less travel from home.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the association between glaucoma and travel away from home.

Methods

Fifty-nine glaucoma suspect controls with normal vision and 80 glaucoma subjects with bilateral visual field (VF) loss wore a cellular tracking device during 1 week of normal activity. Location data were used to evaluate the number of daily excursions away from home as well as daily time spent away from home.

Results

Control and glaucoma subjects were similar in age, race, sex, employment, driving support, cognitive ability, mood, and comorbid illness (p > 0.1 for all). Better-eye VF mean deviation (MD) averaged 0.0 decibels (dB) in controls and -11.1 dB in glaucoma subjects. In multivariable models, glaucoma was associated with fewer daily excursions (β = -0.20; 95% confidence in

SUBMITTER: Ramulu PY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3960394 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature