By Nina Dillen
13 / 05/15 – 19u53 Source: Daily Mail 
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Having a cat in the house can be very cozy, cat lovers may have a greater chance of developing the eye disease glaucoma. Dog People on the other hand are just protected from this eye disease, according to research at the University of California.
The researchers studied 1,678 people between 50 and 60 years old. They found that people of the group who are suffering from the eye disease glaucoma, had a remarkably larger amount of immunoglobulin E in their blood. That is an antibody produced by the body if we often come in contact with cats. This finding makes the rise assumption that the immune system plays a role in the development of the eye disease glaucoma.
Intraocular pressure Disease
Glaucoma eye pressure is a condition that can make even blind eventually. Because intraocular fluid accumulates and can not be taken away, there arises too much eye pressure. In severe forms of glaucoma vision is affected such that you (partly) can be blind. At the “cat people” with glaucoma in the study a larger amount of immunoglobulin E was found, which could potentially be linked to the eye disorder. Frequent contact with dogs could have the opposite effect. Dog lovers would, according to the study therefore less likely to fear the eye condition, possibly because dogs, unlike cats spend more time outside than inside.
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