Prevalence and Associations of Epiretinal Membranes in a Rural Chinese Adult Population: The Handan Eye Study
Prevalence and Associations of Epiretinal Membranes in a Rural Chinese Adult Population: The Handan Eye Study
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DOI:
10.1167/iovs.08-2624
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发表时间:
2009-05-01
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Wong, Tien Yin
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作者:
Duan, Xin Rong;Liang, Yuan Bo;Wong, Tien Yin
PURPOSE. To determine the prevalence and association of epiretinal membranes (ERMs), as assessed by retinal photography and optical coherence tomography (OCT), in a Chinese population.METHODS. The Handan Eye Study is a population-based study of eye disease in rural Chinese aged 30+ years. Eligible residents underwent a detailed ophthalmic examination including retinal photography and Stratus OCT. ERMs were defined by a combination of retinal photographs and OCT and classified as cellophane macular reflex (CMR) or preretinal macular fibrosis (PMF) based on retinal photographs characteristics.RESULTS. Of the 6830 persons examined, 6565 (96.1%) had gradable retinal photographs and/or OCT. The mean age was 51.7 +/- 11.6 years. ERMs were present in 3.4% (95% CI: 2.9% +/- 3.8%) of participants, bilateral in 20.3% of the cases. CMR was present in 2.2% and PMF in 0.7%, and ERMs were unclassified in 0.5% (detected by OCT only). ERM prevalence was similar in women and men (3.6% vs. 3.1%), strongly associated with increasing age (P for trend < 0.001). After adjustment for age and sex, primary ERM was associated positively with myopia (OR: 1.58, 95% CI: 1.12- 2.23) and inversely with current smoking (OR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.38 - 0.97, versus never smoked). Best corrected visual acuity was significantly worse in eyes with primary ERMs (mean LogMAR score lower by 0.07, 95% CI: 0.05-0.10) than eyes without ERMs, after adjustment for age, sex, and lens status.CONCLUSIONS. ERMs affect 3.4% of the population 30+ years of age and living in rural China. Idiopathic ERMs were associated with myopia, decreased visual acuity, and inversely associated with smoking. (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2009;50:2018-2023) DOI:10.1167/iovs.08-2624