{"id":835,"date":"2019-10-04T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T04:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mataasia.com\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T04:33:58","slug":"about-glaucoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mataasia.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/04\/about-glaucoma\/","title":{"rendered":"About Glaucoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-836\" src=\"http:\/\/mataasia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/about-gluacoma-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mataasia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/about-gluacoma-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mataasia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/about-gluacoma.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"incfont\">Glaucoma is a disease \u2014 really a group of diseases \u2014 that damages the optic nerve.<sup class=\"toptxt\">1<\/sup> High eye pressure is a risk factor for glaucoma because it can damage the optic nerve.<sup class=\"toptxt\">2<\/sup> When the optic nerve gets damaged over time, it has a harder and harder time doing its job, which is to transmit information to the brain. The result is permanent vision loss.<sup class=\"toptxt\">3<\/sup><\/p>\n<p class=\"incfont\">We are also learning that retinal ganglion cells are damaged in glaucoma. These are among the many different kinds of nerve cells that are contained in the retina, a thin tissue at the back of the eye. There are over a million retinal ganglion cells that transmit light that enters the eye as information to the brain over the optic nerve. Increased intraocular pressure (IOP) has a detrimental effect.<sup class=\"toptxt\">4<\/sup><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"clr3 shareright_h3\">Learn more about intraocular pressure<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font_colorchange incfont\">The eyeball contains the jelly-like vitreous humor and the liquid aqueous humor. The aqueous humor keeps the eyeball inflated.<sup class=\"toptxt\">5<\/sup> The pressure it puts on the tissue is called intraocular pressure.<sup class=\"toptxt\">6<\/sup><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_colorchange incfont\">This fluid normally drains into your bloodstream, but when it drains too slowly, the excess fluid increases the pressure in the eye. 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