Abstract

The Beijing Eye Study 2011 is a population-based cross-sectional study in Northern China, which enrolled 3468 participants whose age were more than 50 years. A detailed ophthalmic examination was performed including spectral-domain optical coherence tomography with enhanced depth imaging for measurement of SFCT and fundus photography. Blood pressure, fundus photographs and choroidal OCT-images were available for 3237 (93.3%) subjects, with 1953 (56.3 ± 0.8%) of the study population fulfilled the diagnosis of hypertension and 1089 subjects having hypertensive retinopathy. For the hypertensive cases, the SFCT in patients with hypertensive retinopathy (286.48 ± 105.23 µm) was significantly thicker than subjects without hypertensive retinopathy (187.04 ± 78.80 µm, P < 0.001). SFCT was significantly associated with the stage of hypertensive retinopathy (P < 0.001), but not significantly associated with diastolic blood pressure (P = 0.94), history (P = 0.95) and years (P = 0.91) of hypertension. In conclusion, hypertension as systemic disease was not significantly affect the subfoveal choroidal thickness, but as ocular disease, hypertensive retinopathy was significantly related to changes of choroidal thickness. Lesions of choroid during chronic hypertension may play an important role in development of hypertensive retinopathy.

Details

Title
The relationship between Subfoveal Choroidal Thickness and Hypertensive Retinopathy
Author
Shao Lei 1 ; Xiao, Zhou Ling 2 ; Xu, Liang 3 ; Wei, Wen Bin 1 

 Capital Medical University, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Key Laboratory of Intraocular Tumor Diagnosis and Treatment, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing, China (GRID:grid.24696.3f) (ISNI:0000 0004 0369 153X) 
 The First Affilitated Hospital of Xi’an Medical University, Xi’an, China (GRID:grid.508540.c) (ISNI:0000 0004 4914 235X) 
 Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing, China (GRID:grid.24696.3f) (ISNI:0000 0004 0369 153X) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2499223111
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.