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

NCT05605743 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2022-11-04

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Summary

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

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

breathing exercise

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ali Ismail, lecturer · Cairo University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-15
Primary Completion
2023-01-15
Completion
2023-01-15

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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Diseases

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