Conclusion
choroidal microvascular changes, obese
OBESE
OCT-A is a new method for imaging the retinal microvasculature. Our study is the first one in literature to have included homogeneous sex and BMI groups and to have indicated the microvascular changes in obese patients. Despite that, we did not detect any significant difference in all the groups matched with their demographic parameters in our study. Moreover, more studies are required on this subject with a higher number of cases.Even though clinicians are limited in pointing out any differential findings in the obese patients only by fundus examination, OCT-A provides an understanding of the retinal and choroidal microvascular changes in these patients.
The authors state no conflict of interest.
Informed consent has been obtained from all individuals included in this study.
Ethical approval: The research related to human use complies with all the relevant national regulations, institutional policies, is in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration, and has been approved by the Ethics Committee of Mugla University Medical School of Medicine, Mugla, Turkey (Registration Number: E-72855364-050.01.04-238071).
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