Outer Retinal Thinning is Associated With Brain Atrophy in Early Age-Related Macular Degeneration - 09/12/24
Highlights |
• | Retinal changes and AMD have been associated with Alzheimer's disease. |
• | Previous study found outer retina is affected early in AMD. |
• | We found that thinner outer retina was associated with brain atrophy. |
• | Affected areas included vision, memory, and ADRD-related regions. |
• | Further study needed on AMD, retinal neurodegeneration, and brain neuropathology. |
Résumé |
Purpose |
Both retinal changes and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have been shown to be associated with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). In AMD, the outer retina is impacted significantly and early, but little is known about its association with cognition or changes in brain morphometry. This study investigates the relationship between retinal and brain morphometry in older adults with early and intermediate AMD.
Design |
Cross-sectional study.
Methods |
Adults ≥70 years with normal, early, and intermediate AMD were recruited from Callahan Eye Hospital Clinics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Participants underwent cognitive testing, optical coherence tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Associations of retinal layer thickness with brain volume and thickness of specific brain regions were evaluated utilizing multivariable linear regression. The relevance of retinal thickness variables in brain volumetrics was quantified using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression models. Correlations between demographic variables, cognitive scores, and brain morphometry were evaluated.
Results |
Participants with thinner outer retina had significantly smaller hippocampus (
= 0.019, P = .022), lower occipital cortex regions of interest (occipital ROIs) thickness ( = 5.68, P = .020), and lower cortical thickness in ADRD-related brain regions ( = 7.72, P = .006). People with thinner total retina had significantly lower occipital ROIs ( = 3.19, P = .009) and ADRD-related brain region ( = 3.94, P = .005) thickness. Outer retinal thickness in the outer Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study ring was the most frequently reported retinal variable associated with brain morphometry on least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression. Total gray matter volume showed positive correlations with education (Pearson's r = 0.30, P = .022).
Conclusions |
In older adults with normal retinal aging and early and intermediate AMD, thinner outer retina had specific associations with brain regions primarily involved in vision and cognition, such as lower hippocampal volume and lower thickness of the occipital ROIs and brain regions known to show early structural changes in dementia.
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| Meeting presentation: The Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 5 to 9, 2024. |
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