Key result
Adverse retinal vessel calibers link to higher long-term mortality, stroke, and CHD risk.
Why the study?
Retinal vessel calibers as biomarkers for long-term cardiovascular outcomes and their incremental value in risk prediction were not well established.
Does the measurement of retinal vessel calibers predict long-term mortality, ischemic stroke, and coronary heart disease?
Does the measurement of retinal vessel calibers predict long-term mortality, ischemic stroke, and coronary heart disease?
Retinal vessel calibers serve as an inexpensive, reproducible biomarker that adds incremental value to current ASCVD risk prediction guidelines, particularly for low-risk women.
Retinal calibers may refine ASCVD prediction in low-risk women; leaves open whether they improve outcomes or warrant guideline adoption.
Narrower retinal arterioles and wider retinal venules conferred long-term risk of mortality and ischemic stroke in both sexes and coronary heart disease in women. These measures serve as an inexpensive, reproducible biomarker that added incremental value to current practice guidelines in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease event risk prediction in low-risk women.
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Seidelmann et al. (2016) studied this question. Narrower retinal arterioles and wider retinal venules predicted increased long-term risk of mortality and ischemic stroke in both sexes, and coronary heart disease in women.
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