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SUBMITTER: Sun C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7293289 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sun Christopher C Ladores Carlo C Hong Jimmy J Nguyen Duc Quang DQ Chua Jacqueline J Ting Daniel D Schmetterer Leopold L Wong Tien Yin TY Cheng Ching-Yu CY Tan Anna C S ACS
Scientific reports 20200612 1
A major complication of hypertension is microvascular damage and capillary rarefaction is a known complication of hypertensive end-organ damage which confers a higher risk of systemic disease such as stroke and cardiovascular events. Our aim was to study the effect of hypertension on the retinal microvasculature using non-invasive optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). We performed a case-control study of 94 eyes of 94 participants with systemic hypertension and 46 normal control eyes ...[more]