Avid sports provides many benefits for physical health. Not just make the body so fit, rarely esophageal diseases and helps lose weight. But new facts showing that physical activity done regularly also benefit health.
According
to the study published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology and
Visual Science, & sports or fitness routine and continuous
improvement can lower the risk of developing glaucoma disease. The researchers examined the 5,650 men and women aged 50 to 90 years as objects of research.
From
the results of the examination, they found an avid sports respondents
in the last 15 years, the risk of having a low ocular perfusion pressure
(OPP)--one of the factors the causes of glaucoma--reduced to 25
percent.
"Apparently the OPP much influenced by fitness associated with cardiovascular exercise. We
have not been able to comment more about the exact cause, but
definitely something to do between the inactive lifestyle factors that
can increase the risk of glaucoma, "said Paul j. Foster, M.D. Ph.d, as
quoted from the Huffington Post.
As quoted from detikhealth, glaucoma are disturbances of vision caused by fluid channels out of the eyeball is hampered. As a result the eyeball will enlarge and press on a nerve that is in the back of the eyeball. In the end, nervous eyes not getting blood flow resulting in death.
There are two common types of glaucoma: angle your eyes closed and open. Glaucoma can lead to blindness and generally occurs in men and women aged 40 or over. But not closing the possibility also occurs at the age younger than 40 years.
