Research of the Correlation Between Metabolic Syndrome, Retinal Thickness and Visual Acuity

Research of the Correlation Between Metabolic Syndrome, Retinal Thickness and Visual Acuity

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between retinal thickness (RT) and metabolic risks (MRs) in patients without retinal lesion.

Methods: Fifty-two patients over 60 y/o were divided into four groups according to their MRs of hypertension, hyperlipidemia or hyperglyceremia. After complete ophthalmic examination, optical coherence tomography was performed to measure RT.

Inclusion Criteria:

• We enrolled the patients included age more than 60 years old, no positive finding during dilated fundus examination.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The exclusion criteria were as followed:

  • systemic disease that will affect visual acuity evaluation (for example: CVA), *opaque cornea and vitreous
  • glaucoma
  • uvietis and other clinically established ocular disease.

• According to the LOCS III11, those who had nuclear opalescence, nuclear color more than grade 3 or any grade of cortical cataract and posterior subcapsular cataract were also eliminated.