Association of reduced inner retinal thicknesses with chronic kidney disease.
Euan N PatersonMeera L RavindranKayleigh GriffithsClaire A Le VellyChris C CardwellRachel V McCarterPatrick NicolJay K ChhablaniMohammed Abdul RasheedKiran Kumar VupparaboinaThomas J MacGillivrayMark HarbinsonAlexander P MaxwellRuth E HoggGareth J McKayPublished in: BMC nephrology (2020)
Inner retinal thinning and retinal microvascular variation is associated with advanced CKD (stages 4 & 5) independent of important confounding factors, but not with earlier stage CKD (stage 3) and, therefore, its utility as a biomarker for early CKD is not supported in this study.