2023-07-19 20:34:11
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Global warming accentuates the effects of fine particle pollution. A new study shows its impact on health, especially of the eyes. The point, Wednesday July 19, on the set of 19/20 with the doctor and journalist Damien Mascret.
A study shows that pollution increases the risk of glaucoma. Researchers from INSERM and the University of Bordeaux examined the eye structure of 683 people aged over 75. The exam was repeated every two years for 11 years. “They discovered that there was indeed an influence of pollution. (…) The more a person was exposed to pollution during the ten years preceding this observation period, the greater the risk of having a thinning of the deep layer of the eye, the retina.“, reports Wednesday, July 19, the doctor and journalist Damien Mascret.
Second leading cause of blindness worldwide
In other words, they observed a degeneration of nerve fibers. “We knew that pollution increased another degeneration, that of the brain, with an increase in the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, it will perhaps now be necessary to add the degeneration of the optic nerve, therefore the risk of glaucoma”. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide.
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