Vision loss, damage could be tied to eye pressure, study finds

One of the world’s leading causes of irreversible vision loss could begin with elevated eye pressure, according to a recent study published in the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Yi Hua, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Mississippi, partnered with researchers at the University of Pittsburgh to study how ocular hypertension — elevated eye pressure — affects the eye.

“We wanted to see how intraocular pressure changes and deforms the blood vessels in the eye,” Hua…

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