Impact of systemic vascular risk factors on the choriocapillaris using optical coherence tomography angiography in patients with systemic hypertension

• Main Authors: Chua, Jacqueline, Chin, Calvin Woon Loong, Tan, Bingyao, Wong, Si Han, Devarajan, Kavya, Le, Thu-Thao, Ang, Marcus, Wong, Tien Yin, Schmetterer, Leopold
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Medicine; Diseases; Medical Research
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86020; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48280
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We investigated the characteristics of the choriocapillaris flow voids using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in 85 patients (164 eyes) with hypertension (mean ± SD age, 56 ± 11 years; 45% women; 20% poorly controlled BP; 16% diabetes) who are without ocular diseases and determined po...