Cardiovascular risk factors and inner retinal thickness relationship was analyzed in 8288 patients [big up the 8288 number]
Assessed factors included age, lifestyle, body composition, and OCT-measured retinal thickness [a higher age number and some fruit/veg]
Cardiovascular risk factors explained 12.6 percent of the variance in the ganglion cell-inner plexiform retinal layer [big up 12.6]
Weight and blood pressure were the most important modifiable factors [blood pressure monitor]
BMI’s negative association with all inner retinal layers indicates that obesity causes thinning of the inner retina [big up BMI]
References
- T von Hanno, et al., Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2022). 63, 16 (2022). PMID: 35960516.
