Brain pressure is a condition that is more common in the women, but a U.S. study finds that men are more likely than women to have vision loss because of increased pressure in the brain.

This condition of increased pressure in the brain is known as Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) and people with this condition have an increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure that leads to severe headaches, swelling of the optic nerves, whooshing noise in the ears, double vision and vision loss. This condition is quite common in women and it affects almost one out of 5,000 people.

Dr. Beau Bruce (from Emory University, Atlanta) and his team looked at the medical records of 721 people that had IIH. Among them only 9 percent patients were male, however, they were as much as twice more likely than female to have intense vision problems in their both or one eye. Read the rest of this entry