Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Changes in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Case-control Study.

CONCLUSION: Diabetes mellitus seems to affect RNFL thickness, suggesting that early neurodegenerative changes may occur, potentially before microvascular alterations. Since duration of disease, DR severity, and HbA1c levels were associated with RNFL thinning, modifying glycemic control seems to be important to potentially prevent the development of DM complications. PMID: 32835571 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Seminars in Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Tags: Semin Ophthalmol Source Type: research