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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Volume 180, Issue -, Pages 64-71Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2017.05.020
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH [K23EY02492]
- RESEARCH to Prevent Blindness, Inc, New York, NY
- Department of Health, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology (Moorfields Eye Hospital
- University College London, London, UK)
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals
- Department of Health's NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
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PURPOSE: To determine the time and risk factors for developing proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and vitreous hemorrhage (VH). DESIGN: Multicenter, national cohort study. METHODS: Anonymized data of 50 254 patient eyes with diabetes mellitus at 19 UK hospital eye services were extracted at the initial and follow-up visits between 2007 and 2014. Time to progression of PDR and VH were calculated with Cox regression after stratifying by baseline diabetic retinopathy (DR) severity and adjusting for age, sex, race, and starting visual acuity. RESULTS: Progression to PDR in 5 years differed by baseline DR: no DR (2.2%), mild (13.0%), moderate (27.2%), severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) (45.5%). Similarly, 5-year progression to VH varied by baseline DR: no DR (1.1%), mild (2.9%), moderate (7.3%), severe NPDR (9.8%). Compared with no DR, the patient eyes that presented with mild, moderate, and severe NPDR were 6.71, 14.80, and 28.19 times more likely to develop PDR, respectively. In comparison to no DR, the eyes with mild, moderate, and severe NPDR were 2.56, 5.60, and 7.29 times more likely to develop VH, respectively. In severe NPDR, the eyes with intraretinal microvascular abnormalities (IRMA) had a significantly increased hazard ratio (HR) of developing PDR (HR 1.77, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.25-2.49, P = .0013) compared with those with venous beading, whereas those with 4-quadrant dot-blot hemorrhages (4Q DBH),had 3.84 higher HR of developing VH (95% CI 1.39-10.62, P = .0095). CONCLUSIONS: Baseline severities and features of initial DR are prognostic for PDR development. IRMA increases risk of PDR whereas 4Q DBH increases risk of VH. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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