Association of Retinal Age Gap With Arterial Stiffness and Incident Cardiovascular Disease.

Zhuoting Zhu Yifan Chen Mingguang He Yueye Wang Wenyi Hu Xianwen ShangHuan LiaoDanli ShiYu HuangJason Ha Zachary Tan Katerina V KiburgXueli ZhangShulin TangHonghua YuXiaohong Yang Mingguang He

Published in: Stroke (2022)

We found that retinal age gap was significantly associated with arterial stiffness index and incident CVD events, supporting the potential of this novel biomarker in identifying individuals at high risk of future CVD events.

Keyphrases

cardiovascular disease
optical coherence tomography
diabetic retinopathy
blood pressure
optic nerve
type diabetes
cardiovascular risk factors
current status
cardiovascular events
climate change
coronary artery disease