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.
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.
Seidelmann et al. (Thu,) studied this question.