They applied QUARTZ to retinal images from 88,052 UK Biobank participants aged 40-69, looking specifically at the width, vessel area, and degree of curviness (tortuosity) of the arterioles and venules ...

Retinal vasculature in peripheral regions of the retina differed in patients with Alzheimer dementia and mild cognitive impairment. Alzheimer dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were found to ...

Changes to retinal blood vessels may be an indicator of development of preeclampsia, according to a poster presented at the 2024 meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation. Preeclampsia is ...

Distinct retinal vessel atrophy patterns may be associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), but further research is needed to assess retinal vessel changes and their underlying role in MS. Changes in the ...

The system, called QUARTZ (for QUantitative Analysis of Retinal vessels Topology and siZe), uses retinal vasculature imaging and known individual risk factors to determine a person’s likelihood of ...