Key result
Retinal microvascular changes in the pediatric population provide morphological evidence supporting the theory that major cardiovascular diseases have a pathological predisposition early in life.
Why the study?
Does quantitative retinal vascular assessment offer clues to cardiovascular risk factors in early life among the paediatric population?
Systematic Review
Does quantitative retinal vascular assessment offer clues to cardiovascular risk factors in early life among the paediatric population?
Retinal microvasculature assessment in children provides morphological evidence supporting the early-life predisposition to major vascular diseases.
Supports early CV risk detection via retinal imaging in children; extends adult data on lifelong disease origins.
UNLABELLED: Adulthood cardiovascular diseases (CVD) burdening in adulthood have been suggested to have possible predisposition early in life. We aimed to systematically review the literatures on retinal microvasculature among paediatric population in relation to a range of environmental and systemic changes. Papers with quantitative retinal vascular assessment and epidemiological design were reviewed. CONCLUSION: This review supports the theory that major vascular diseases have pathological predisposition early in life by providing morphological evidence on retinal microcirculation in vivo.
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Li et al. (2013) conducted a systematic review in Cardiovascular diseases. Environmental and systemic changes was evaluated on Retinal microvasculature changes. Retinal microvascular changes in the pediatric population provide morphological evidence supporting the theory that major cardiovascular diseases have a pathological predisposition early in life.
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