Relationship of Hypertension with High Ocular Pressure in Patients Referred to Amir almomenin Hospital of Rasht in 2012

Introduction and High ocular pressure is often related with open angle glaucoma. In this study we evaluated association of hypertension and some other underlying factors with high Intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients of Amir’almomenin hospital during 2011-2012. This is a descriptive retrospective study. 180 Patients with high IOP hospitalized during 2011-2012 in Amir’almomenin hospital in Rasht were included. Collected data was analyzed by SPSS v.18. 55% of patients were women. Mean age of them was 67.64 ± 11.88. Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure were 180 ± 16.7 and 136.8 ± 18.8, respectively. Mean right and left IOP were 16.16 ± 3.35 and 16.49 ± 3.76, respectively. There was a significant relation between gender, history of hypertension, alcohol abuse, hyperlipidemia and cardiac disease with high IOP in right eye (P < 0.05) that had a straight relation with high IOP. Also there was a meaningful relation between changes of systolic blood pressure and IOP (P = 0.005) but there was no relation between changes of diastolic pressure and IOP (P > 0.05). Present study showed that systolic blood pressure and hypertension can effectively and positively be related with high IOP. But these changes were not affected by age. For getting more data, it is recommended to perform a longitudinal study for evaluation of indicated factors of this study and more advanced indexes such as determination of thickness of cornea for better evaluation of relations with high IOP.