Jing Yan Yang1, Qian Wang1, Yan Ni Yan1, Wen Jia Zhou1, Ya Xing Wang2, Shou Ling Wu3, Ming Xia Yuan4, Wen Bin Wei5, Jost B Jonas6. 1. Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Key Laboratory of Intraocular Tumor Diagnosis and Treatment, Capital Medical University, 1 Dong Jiao Min Xiang, Dong Cheng District, Beijing, 100730, China. 2. Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. 3. Cardiology Department, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China. 4. Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. 5. Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Key Laboratory of Intraocular Tumor Diagnosis and Treatment, Capital Medical University, 1 Dong Jiao Min Xiang, Dong Cheng District, Beijing, 100730, China. weiwenbintr@163.com. 6. Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karis-University, Mannheim, Germany.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To investigate microvascular abnormalities in diabetic patients without conventional clinical signs of diabetic retinopathy (DR). METHODS: In this cross-sectional observational cohort study, the study group included randomly chosen participants of a community-based cohort with diabetes type 2 without DR, and the control group consisted of non-diabetic individuals from a population-based study. All participants underwent optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCTA). RESULTS: Upon OCTA, 118 (40.4%) eyes of the study group (n = 292 eyes) showed microvascular abnormalities including foveal avascular zone erosion (95 (32.5%) eyes), non-perfusion areas in the superficial and deep retinal layers (39 (13.4%) eyes and 19 (6.5%) eyes, respectively), and microaneurysms in the superficial and deep retinal layers (22 (7.5%) eyes and 31 (10.6%) eyes, resp.). None of these abnormalities was detected in the control group (n = 80). The study group showed a lower vessel density in the superficial retinal vascular layer in all regions except for the foveal region (P < 0.001), and higher vessel density in the parafoveal region in the deep retinal vascular layer (P = 0.01). Higher diabetes prevalence was associated with lower superficial retinal vascular density (P = 0.005) in multivariable analysis. A lower radial peripapillary capillary flow density was correlated (regression coefficient r, 0.62) with higher fasting blood concentration of glucose (P < 0.001) in multivariable analysis. CONCLUSIONS: OCTA revealed microvascular abnormalities in 40% of eyes of diabetic patients without ophthalmoscopically detectable diabetic fundus changes in a community-based population. The early stage of DR may be re-defined upon OCTA.
PURPOSE: To investigate microvascular abnormalities in diabeticpatients without conventional clinical signs of diabetic retinopathy (DR). METHODS: In this cross-sectional observational cohort study, the study group included randomly chosen participants of a community-based cohort with diabetes type 2 without DR, and the control group consisted of non-diabetic individuals from a population-based study. All participants underwent optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCTA). RESULTS: Upon OCTA, 118 (40.4%) eyes of the study group (n = 292 eyes) showed microvascular abnormalities including foveal avascular zone erosion (95 (32.5%) eyes), non-perfusion areas in the superficial and deep retinal layers (39 (13.4%) eyes and 19 (6.5%) eyes, respectively), and microaneurysms in the superficial and deep retinal layers (22 (7.5%) eyes and 31 (10.6%) eyes, resp.). None of these abnormalities was detected in the control group (n = 80). The study group showed a lower vessel density in the superficial retinal vascular layer in all regions except for the foveal region (P < 0.001), and higher vessel density in the parafoveal region in the deep retinal vascular layer (P = 0.01). Higher diabetes prevalence was associated with lower superficial retinal vascular density (P = 0.005) in multivariable analysis. A lower radial peripapillary capillary flow density was correlated (regression coefficient r, 0.62) with higher fasting blood concentration of glucose (P < 0.001) in multivariable analysis. CONCLUSIONS: OCTA revealed microvascular abnormalities in 40% of eyes of diabeticpatients without ophthalmoscopically detectable diabetic fundus changes in a community-based population. The early stage of DR may be re-defined upon OCTA.
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