UMMS Affiliation
Medical Education
Publication Date
2018-11-27
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Epidemiology | Eye Diseases | Musculoskeletal, Neural, and Ocular Physiology | Ophthalmology | Race and Ethnicity | Vision Science
Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the effects of age, race, and ethnicity on the optic nerve and peripapillary retina using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) three-dimensional (3D) volume scans in normal subjects.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study performed at a single institution in Boston. All patients received retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) scans and an optic nerve 3D volume scan. The SD-OCT software calculated peripapillary RNFL thickness, retinal thickness (RT), and retinal volume (RV). Custom-designed software calculated neuroretinal rim minimum distance band (MDB) thickness and area.
Results: There were 272 normal subjects, including 175 whites, 40 blacks, 40 Asians, and 17 Hispanics. Rates of age-related decline were 2.3%, 2.0%, 1.7%, 3.3%, and 4.3% per decade for RNFL, RT, RV, MDB neuroretinal rim thickness, and MDB area, respectively. The RNFL was most affected by racial and ethnic variations, with Asians having thicker global, superior, and inferior RNFL, Hispanics having thicker inferior RNFL, and blacks having thinner temporal RNFL, compared to whites. For MDB thickness and area, Asians had smaller nasal values and blacks had smaller temporal values. Peripapillary RT and RV parameters were not influenced by race and ethnicity.
Conclusions: All of the parameters exhibited age-related declines. RNFL, MDB thickness, and MDB area demonstrated racial and ethnic variations, while peripapillary RT and RV did not. Translational
Relevance: This study demonstrates that both normal aging and ethnicity affect several novel 3D OCT parameters used to diagnose and monitor glaucoma (i.e., RT, RV, and MDB), and this should be factored in when making clinical decisions based on these parameters.
Keywords
age, aging, optic nerve, peripapillary retina, race, spectral-domain OCT, three-dimensional OCT
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DOI of Published Version
10.1167/tvst.7.6.12
Source
Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2018 Nov 27;7(6):12. doi: 10.1167/tvst.7.6.12. eCollection 2018 Nov. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Translational vision science and technology
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PubMed ID
30510856
Repository Citation
Poon, Linda Yi-Chieh; Antar, Hussein; Tsikata, Edem; Guo, Rong; Papadogeorgou, Georgia; Freeman, Madeline; Khoueir, Ziad; Lee, Ramon; Shieh, Eric; Simavli, Huseyin; Que, Christian John; de Boer, Johannes F.; and Chen, Teresa C., "Effects of Age, Race, and Ethnicity on the Optic Nerve and Peripapillary Region Using Spectral-Domain OCT 3D Volume Scans" (2018). Open Access Articles. 3684.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3684
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