Blood Pressure and Glaucomatous Progression in a Large Clinical Population

To investigate the effect of systemic arterial blood pressure (BP) on rates of progressive structural damage over time in glaucoma.Retrospective cohort study.A total of 7501 eyes of 3976 subjects with glaucoma or suspected of glaucoma followed over time from the Duke Glaucoma Registry.Linear mixed models were used to investigate the effects of BP on the rates of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) loss from spectral-domain OCT (SD-OCT) over time....