What is it about?
This paper explains a study aimed at ascertain whether anxiety present in the assessing of intraocular pressure could affect the results obtained in the test named tonometry.
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Why is it important?
The results could to identify a phenomenon which has been yet described with regard to arterial hypertension, named white coat effect. In strictu sensu. The results obtained suggest that the anxiety of a "patient" at the arrival to the "clinic" increases the intraocuñar pressure in healthy people.
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This is only a simulation in a laboratory. The next step in this research line is to verify the results obtained in a real clinical setting
Dr Antoni Sanz
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Could White Coat Ocular Hypertension Affect to the Accuracy of the Diagnosis of Glaucoma? Relationships Between Anxiety and Intraocular Pressure in a Simulated Clinical Setting, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10484-017-9385-x.
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