Lifestyle Changes in Aging and their Potential Impact on POAG
Lebensstiländerungen im Alter und ihr potenzieller Einfluss auf das primäre Offenwinkelglaukom
Erb C. Erb C. Kazakov A. Kapanova G. Weisser B.
16 June 2025Georg Thieme Verlag
Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde
2025#242Issue 6661 - 670 pp.
Primary open angle glaucoma is a primary mitochondrial disease with oxidative stress triggering neuroinflammation, eventually resulting in neurodegeneration. This affects many other areas of the brain in addition to the visual system. Aging also leads to inflammaging – a low-grade chronic inflammatory reaction in mitochondrial dysfunction, so these inflammatory processes overlap in the aging process and intensify pathophysiological processes associated with glaucoma. Actively counteracting these inflammatory events involves optimising treatment for any manifest systemic diseases while maintaining chronobiology and improving the microbiome. Physical and mental activity also provides support. This requires a holistic approach towards optimising neurodegeneration treatment in primary open angle glaucoma in addition to reducing intraocular pressure according personalised patient targets.
aging , chronobiology , Glaucoma , microbiome , neurodegeneration , physical activity
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Augenklinik am Wittenbergplatz, Berlin, Germany
Universität Heidelberg, Germany
External Relations and Development, Salymbekov University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Medical Faculty of Medicine, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Sportmedizin, Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Kiel, Germany
Augenklinik am Wittenbergplatz
Universität Heidelberg
External Relations and Development
Medical Faculty of Medicine
Sportmedizin
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