Risk Factors for Glaucoma in Musicians

Henny Beckers

Status: Completed

Conditions: Glaucoma

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01667861

NL25853.068.09/MEC09-2-112

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of playing wind instruments for the development of ocular hypertension and glaucoma, together with investigating the prevalence of visual problems and eye diseases in (professional) musicians.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All full time or part time professional players of participating symphony or wind orchestras, including guest players.
• Retired players, if possible.

Exclusion criteria

• Difficulty in reading or speaking Dutch.

Trial design

40 participants in 1 patient group

(Wind) musicians

Description:

Members of (professional) orchestras, especially wind instrument players.