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- Published on: 20 October 2008
- Published on: 9 October 2008
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Author’s Response re letter by Nathan M Radcliffe
Dear Editor,
We are very interested to read Prof Radcliffe’s data showing a variable IOP rise in different subjects tested with the same goggle design. Their results, like ours,[1] suggest that individual anatomic or physiologic factors are important in determining the IOP rise. Currently, these factors are unknown with significant certainty, however som...
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None declared. - Published on: 9 October 2008Swimming goggles and elevated intraocular pressureShow More
We would like to congratulate Drs Morgan and colleagues on their recent paper “Wearing swimming goggles can elevate intraocular pressure.” We performed a similar study and presented our data at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 2007. Our findings demonstrated that in healthy participants, IOP measurements taken during goggle wear were significantly higher at both one and five minutes, with an av...
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