Macular thinning in prediabetes or type 2 diabetes without diabetic retinopathy: the Maastricht Study.
Eline Elodie Barbara De ClerckJan S A G SchoutenTos T J M BerendschotFleur GoezinnePieter C DagnelieNicolaas C SchaperMiranda T SchramCoen D A StehouwerCarroll A B WebersPublished in: Acta ophthalmologica (2017)
Macular thickness is reduced in prediabetes and a greater reduction occurs in DM2, even before DR is clinically present. About half of the thinning observed in DM2 w/o DR was already found in prediabetes. Generalized thinning of the macula could be related to thinning of the temporal side of the optic nerve head through the connecting papillo-macular bundle.