Statin use was not found to be a protective strategy against glaucoma or related traits of glaucoma, according to a cross-sectional study in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.
“The relation between statin use and glaucoma has also been intensely studied and has yielded very mixed results ranging from inverse, to null, to adverse,” Jihye Kim, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and colleagues wrote.
Using the UK Biobank, Kim and colleagues collected data on statin use, IOP, OCT parameters and glaucoma status to determine whether a positive