Blood pressure in subconjunctival hemorrhage.

controlling blood pressure adequately with antihypertensive drugs would have hypertension as a cause of subconjunctival hemorrhage. Perhaps the percentages of subconjunctival bleeding from hypertension would change if the appropriate definition of hypertension were applied. I read with interest the article by Mimura et al. [1] . The authors defined hypertension as treatment with antihypertensive drugs or a blood pressure more than 140/90 mm Hg. While uncontrolled hypertension can explain such bleeding, the authors cannot conclude that a patient Published online: April 30, 2010