July 23, 2025
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SALT LAKE CITY — On this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO assembly, Osamah J. Saeedi, MD, discusses a research that seemed on the influence of age and intercourse on retinal vasculature in sufferers with glaucoma.
Based on Saeedi, an evaluation of greater than 88,000 fundus pictures confirmed that girls with glaucoma confirmed a “dramatic decline” in central retinal artery equal and central retinal vein equal between the ages of 40 and 49 years vs. males with glaucoma, who demonstrated a constant decline over time.
“This steep decline in [retinal vascular] metrics might point out perimenopausal modifications that might be concerned, and that is according to prior analysis that implicates estrogen and a scarcity of estrogen within the pathogenesis of glaucoma,” he stated. “Understanding these patterns might enhance our illness monitoring, get us personalised remedy approaches and will help using these retinal vascular metrics over time.”
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Diaz M, et al. Evaluation of retinal vascular caliber alterations with age and intercourse in well being and illness. Offered at: Affiliation for Analysis in Imaginative and prescient and Ophthalmology assembly; Might 4-8, 2025; Salt Lake Metropolis.
Disclosures:
Saeedi experiences beforehand consulting for Topcon Healthcare.
