British Journal of Ophthalmology

Associations between obesity, metabolic syndrome and glaucoma in the National Institutes of Health ‘All of Us’ research programme

Background/aims The literature surrounding the relationship between obesity and glaucoma is conflicting. The aim of this ...
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Association of high-pillow sleeping posture with intraocular pressure in patients with glaucoma

Background Intraocular pressure (IOP) exhibits significant fluctuations in response to changes in body posture. Postural modification may serve as a potential adjunctive strategy for IOP management in ...
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Three-year outcomes after high hyperopia correction using photorefractive keratectomy with a large ablation zone

Aim To evaluate refractive and visual outcomes of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) to treat high hyperopia using an aberration-neutral profile and large ablation zone. Methods This was a ...
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Capabilities of GPT-4 in ophthalmology: an analysis of model entropy and progress towards human-level medical question answering

Background Evidence on the performance of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4), a large language model (LLM), in the ophthalmology question-answering domain is needed. Methods We tested GPT-4 ...
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Association of secondhand smoke exposure with child astigmatism in the Hong Kong children eye study

Backgrounds/aims Any association of secondhand smoke (SHS) with refractive astigmatism (RA) and corneal astigmatism (CA) remains unknown. This study aims to investigate the associations of SHS ...
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Stargardt disease: clinical features, molecular genetics, animal models and therapeutic options

Stargardt disease (STGD1; MIM 248200) is the most prevalent inherited macular dystrophy and is associated with disease-causing sequence variants in the gene ABCA4. Significant advances have been made ...
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Retinal age gap as a predictive biomarker for mortality risk

Aim To develop a deep learning (DL) model that predicts age from fundus images (retinal age) and to investigate the association between retinal age gap (retinal age predicted by DL model minus ...
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Normative data and percentile curves for axial length and axial length/corneal curvature in Chinese children and adolescents aged 4–18 years

Correspondence to Padmaja Sankaridurg, Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney 2052, New South Wales, Australia; p.sankaridurg{at}bhvi.org; Dr Xun Xu; drxuxun{at}sjtu.edu.cn Purpose To develop ...
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Doxycycline—a role in ocular surface repair

Correspondence to: Dr V A Smith University of Bristol, Division of Ophthalmology, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol BS1 2LX, UK; Val.Smithbristol.ac.uk Background/aims: Doxycycline is a broad spectrum ...
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Predicting the cognitive impairment with multimodal ophthalmic imaging and artificial neural network for community screening

Background/aims To investigate the comprehensive prediction ability for cognitive impairment in a general elder population using the combination of the multimodal ophthalmic imaging and artificial ...
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Choriocapillaris perfusion assessed using swept source optical coherence tomographic angiography and the severity of diabetic retinopathy

Aims To investigate the relationship between choriocapillaris (CC) blood perfusion and the severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR) using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA).