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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Normal-Tension Glaucoma and Potential Clinical Links to Alzheimer's Disease.

Kathleen Ho, Nicole E Bodi, Tasneem P Sharma

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Lifestyle Medicine for Glaucoma.Journal of current glaucoma practice
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kathleen HoEugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3751-3160
Nicole E BodiPharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Tasneem P SharmaEugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6684-7405
Indiana University School of MedicineNeurosciences Institute · US

Funding

Therapeutic intervention to target human glaucoma pathogenesisR01EY034174 · NEI · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI Tasneem Putliwala Sharma · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NEI NIH HHS 1R01EY034174-01A1NEI NIH HHS R01 EY034174
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glaucoma is a group of optic neuropathies and the world's leading cause of irreversible blindness. Normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) is a subtype of glaucoma that is characterized by a typical pattern of peripheral retinal loss, in which the patient's intraocular pressure (IOP) is considered within the normal range (<21 mmHg). Currently, the only targetable risk factor for glaucoma is lowering IOP, and patients with NTG continue to experience visual field loss after IOP-lowering treatments. This demonstrates the need for a better understanding of the pathogenesis of NTG and underlying mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration. Recent studies have found significant connections between NTG and cerebral manifestations, suggesting NTG as a neurodegenerative disease beyond the eye. Gaining a better understanding of NTG can potentially provide new Alzheimer's Disease diagnostics capabilities. This review identifies the epidemiology, current biomarkers, altered fluid dynamics, and cerebral and ocular manifestations to examine connections and discrepancies between the mechanisms of NTG and Alzheimer's Disease.

Indexed as

Alzheimer’s Diseasebiomarkerscerebralepidemiologyfluid dynamicsnormal tension glaucomaocular

Identifiers

PMID38610712
PMCPMC11012506
OpenAlexW4393235104

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