Original articleRetinal Vascular Caliber and Age-related Macular Degeneration: The Singapore Malay Eye Study
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Methods
The Singapore Malay Eye Study is a population-based cross-sectional survey of eye diseases in urban Malay adults ranging in age between 40 and 80 years residing in 15 districts in Southwestern Singapore.22 Subjects were selected, using an age-stratified (by 10-year age group) random sampling method, from a computer-generated list provided by the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs. Of 4,168 eligible participants, 3,280 (78.7%) participated in the study, conducted from August 2004 through June
Results
Early and late AMD was present in 160 (4.9%) and 23 (0.07%) of the study subjects and in 205 (3.1%) and 30 (0.05%) of the eyes examined, respectively. Table 1 shows the demographic characteristics, subcategorized by the presence of early or late AMD. The mean CRAE in eyes without AMD, with early AMD, and with late AMD was 139.6 μm, 139.0 μm, and 137.5 μm, respectively. The mean CRVE in eyes without AMD, with early AMD, and with and late was 219.2 μm, 221.9 μm, and 213.8 μm, respectively.
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Discussion
We found that wider retinal venular caliber was associated significantly with retinal pigmentary abnormalities and early AMD after controlling for age, gender, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, and BMI. Although there was an association between narrower retinal arteriolar caliber and retinal pigmentary abnormalities, there was no significant association between retinal arteriolar caliber and early AMD. We could not find significant associations between arteriolar or venular caliber and late AMD.
Dr V. Swetha E. Jeganathan is from the Centre of Eye Research Australia and is currently attached as a clinical research fellow at the Singapore Eye Research Institute. Since graduating from medicine at Monash University, Australia, she attained her Masters of Applied Management, majoring in Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and is currently working toward a MD and Doctorate in International Ophthalmology.
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Dr V. Swetha E. Jeganathan is from the Centre of Eye Research Australia and is currently attached as a clinical research fellow at the Singapore Eye Research Institute. Since graduating from medicine at Monash University, Australia, she attained her Masters of Applied Management, majoring in Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and is currently working toward a MD and Doctorate in International Ophthalmology.