Alternate Nostril Breathing Training in Geriatrics With Glaucoma and High Blood Pressure

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Hypertension; Primary Open Angle Glaucoma

Treatments: Behavioral: breathing exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05605743

P.T.REC/012/004006

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypertension, particularly if poorly controlled, appears related to an increased risk of open angle glaucoma, (the high tension type of glaucoma is characterized as optic nerve degeneration with ocular hypertension). so this study will search response of glaucoma to breathing exercise

Full description

Hypertension, particularly if poorly controlled, appears related to an increased risk of open angle glaucoma, (the high tension type of glaucoma is characterized as optic nerve degeneration with ocular hypertension). With a random assignment, sixty hypertensive geriatric with high tension type primary open angle glaucoma will be assigned to breathing exercise (alternate nostril breathing) group (n=30 geriatrics) or waiting list geriatrics. the daily breathing exercise will be performed by the geriatrics in evening (for half an hour) and morning (for half an hour).

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• hypertensive elderly
• primary open angle glaucoma in both eyes
• ocular hypertension in both eyes

Exclusion criteria

acute or chronic eye inflammation cataract eye surgeries mental ill patients patients who will refuse to participate in the study other systemic /cardiovascular problem

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercised group

Experimental group

Description:

Thirty hypertensive geriatric with high tension type primary open angle glaucoma will perform breathing exercise (alternate nostril breathing). The daily breathing exercise will be performed by the geriatrics in evening (for half an hour) and morning (for half an hour) for one month.

Treatment:

Behavioral: breathing exercise

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

this will be a thirty-patient wait-list group that will no receive any shape of training