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Abstract #120488 Published in IGR 25-1

Lifestyle Changes in Aging and their Potential Impact on POAG

Erb C; Kazakov A; Kapanova G; Weisser B
Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde 2024; 0:


Primary open angle glaucoma is a primary mitochondrial disease with oxidative stress triggering neuroinflammation, eventually resulting in neurodegeneration. This affects many other areas of the brain in addition to the visual system. Aging also leads to inflammaging - a low-grade chronic inflammatory reaction in mitochondrial dysfunction, so these inflammatory processes overlap in the aging process and intensify pathophysiological processes associated with glaucoma. Actively counteracting these inflammatory events involves optimising treatment for any manifest systemic diseases while maintaining chronobiology and improving the microbiome. Physical and mental activity also provides support. This requires a holistic approach towards optimising neurodegeneration treatment in primary open angle glaucoma in addition to reducing intraocular pressure according personalised patient targets.

Augenklinik am Wittenbergplatz, Berlin, Deutschland.

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