Correlation between Quality of Life measures and retinal structure and function in patients with age-related macular degeneration

Faran SABETI; Ted Maddess; Emilie Rohan; Rohan W. Essex; Elinor McKone; Jo Lane

Correlation between Quality of Life measures and retinal structure and function in patients with age-related macular degeneration

Faran SABETI, Ted Maddess, Emilie Rohan, Rohan W. Essex, Elinor McKone, Jo Lane

Optometry and Vision Science

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Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between quality of life (QoL) measures and visual function in advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Methods: We examined 18 female (82.2 ± 9.0 years, mean ± SD) and 9 males (82.9 ± 6.0 years) patients with exudative AMD from the ophthalmology department at The Canberra Hospital (TCH). Patients visual function was measured with both high contrast and low contrast visual acuity charts that followed standardized format of the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) charts. Visual sensitivity was measured with Matrix 10-2 threshold Frequency doubling technology (FDT) testing. Results: There was no significant association between any visual function measure and quality of life measure; however, a significant negative correlation between central retinal thickness and MacDQol (β=-0.66, p=0.02) and National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire 25 (β=-0.63, p=0.04) was found. Conclusions:
These results indicate that central retinal thickness has a stronger association with quality of life measures than visual function. In addition, retinal sensitivity losses became symmetrical with progression in MD.

Original language	English
Pages	74-74
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 28 May 2019
Event	Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2018 - Honolulu, Honolulu, United States Duration: 29 Apr 2018 → 3 May 2018

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Conference	Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2018
Abbreviated title	ARVO 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	29/04/18 → 3/05/18

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Correlation between Quality of Life measures and retinal structure and function in patients with age-related macular degeneration. / SABETI, Faran; Maddess, Ted; Rohan, Emilie et al.
2019. 74-74 Poster session presented at Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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