RETINAL MICROANEURYSM COUNTS AND 10-YEAR PROGRESSION OF DIABETIC-RETINOPATHY
RETINAL MICROANEURYSM COUNTS AND 10-YEAR PROGRESSION OF DIABETIC-RETINOPATHY
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DOI:
10.1001/archopht.1995.01100110046024
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发表时间:
1995-11-01
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KLEIN, BEK
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作者:
KLEIN, R;MEUER, SM;KLEIN, BEK
Objective: To determine the relationship of change in the number of retinal microaneurysms to the 10-year progression to significant retinopathy, proliferative retinopathy, and clinically significant macular edema.Design: Population-based study of persons with younger-and older-onset diabetes with 10 years of follow-up.Setting and Patients: Eleven-county area in southern Wisconsin, where 189 patients with diabetes who had only retinal microaneurysms in photographs at baseline participated in 4- and 10-year follow-up examinations.Outcome Measures: Ten-year incidence of moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy or worse, proliferative retinopathy, or clinically significant macular edema as determined by masked grading of stereoscopic color fundus photographs of seven standard fields.Results: The increase in the number of retinal microaneurysms and the ratio of the number of retinal microaneurysms at the 4-year follow-up to the number at baseline were positively associated with incidence ofproliferative retinopathy or clinically significant macular edema at the 10-year follow-up. Proliferative retinopathy was approximately 4.6 times and clinically significant macular edema was approximately 9.1 times more likely to develop at 10-year follow-up in eyes in which the number of microaneurysms increased by 16 or more from baseline to the di-year follow-up than in eyes with no increase. Proliferative retinopathy was 3.4 times and clinically significant macular edema was 6.7 times more likely to develop at 10-year follow-up in eyes that had ratios of 3 or greater of the number of retinal microaneurysms at the dr-year follow-up to the number at baseline than in eyes in which the ratios were smaller. These relationships remained after controlling for the level of glycosylated hemoglobin and type of diabetes.Conclusions: Microaneurysm counts using stereoscopic color fundus photographs are an early important measure of progression of retinopathy and may serve as a surrogate end point for severe change in some clinical trials.