Associations between axial length and optical coherence tomography angiography biomarkers
Jessica Wing Ka Lau, Shing Chuen Chow, Ming Ming Zhu, Pun Yuet Lam, Kendrick Co Shih, Nicholas Siu Kay Fung · 2025
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Description
Lau and co-authors examine how eye length relates to blood flow measures in the retina, the light-sensing layer at the back of the eye. Their 2025 study scans the right eye of 6,953 adults aged 50 to 97 with a method that maps tiny vessels without dye. Eye length in the group ranged widely, from short eyes to very long, near-sighted ones.
Longer eyes came with a thicker center spot but a sparser web of small vessels. The vessel-poor zone at the very center also shrank as eyes lengthened. Better vision tracked with a denser vessel web, while diabetes tracked with a sparser one. The authors suggest that thin vessel supply may help explain why long, near-sighted eyes often see worse.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jessica Wing Ka Lau, Shing Chuen Chow, Ming Ming Zhu, Pun Yuet Lam, Kendrick Co Shih, Nicholas Siu Kay Fung |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |