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      Prevalence and Associations of Incomplete Posterior Vitreous Detachment in Adult Chinese: The Beijing Eye Study

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          Abstract

          Purpose

          To determine prevalence and associations of incomplete posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).

          Methods

          The population-based cross-sectional Beijing Eye Study 2011 included 3468 individuals with a mean age of 64.6±9.8 years (range: 50–93 years). A detailed ophthalmic examination was performed including spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Incomplete PVD was differentiated into type 1 (shallow PVD with circular perifoveal vitreous attachment), type 2 (PVD reaching fovea but not foveola), type 3 (shallow PVD with pinpoint vitreous attachment at the foveola), and type 4 (PVD completely detached from the macula, attached to the optic disc).

          Results

          An incomplete PVD was detected in 3948 eyes (prevalence: 60.5±0.6%; 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 59.3%,61.7%) of 2198 subjects (67.1±0.8%;95%CI: 65.6%,68.7%). Type 1 PVD was seen in 3090 (78.3%) eyes, type 2 PVD in 504 (12.8%) eyes, type 3 PVD in 70 (1.8%) eyes, and type 4 PVD in 284 (7.2%) eyes. Prevalence of incomplete PVD was associated with younger age ( P<0.001;OR:0.91), male gender ( P<0.001;OR:0.64), rural region of habitation ( P<0.001;OR:0.49), larger corneal diameter ( P = 0.04;OR:0.91), better best corrected visual acuity ( P = 0.02;OR:0.41), and hyperopic refractive error ( P<0.001;OR:1.15). The type of incomplete PVD was associated with higher age ( P<0.001), urban region of habitation ( P<0.001), myopic refractive error ( P = 0.001), thinner cornea ( P = 0.005), and better best corrected visual acuity ( P = 0.056).

          Conclusions

          In adult Chinese in Greater Beijing, prevalence of an incomplete PVD (detected in 67.1% subjects) was associated with younger age, male gender, rural region of habitation, larger corneal diameter, better best corrected visual acuity and hyperopic refractive error.

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          Journal
          PLoS One
          PLoS ONE
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          plosone
          PLoS ONE
          Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
          1932-6203
          2013
          27 March 2013
          : 8
          : 3
          : e58498
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
          [2 ]Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
          [3 ]Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany
          Medical University Graz, Austria
          Author notes

          Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

          Conceived and designed the experiments: LX QSY YXW JBJ WBW. Performed the experiments: LS LX QSY YXW CXC HY JQZ JBJ WBW. Analyzed the data: LS YXW JBJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LX JBJ WBW. Wrote the paper: LS YXW JBJ.

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          PONE-D-12-39594
          10.1371/journal.pone.0058498
          3609755
          23544043
          25bdf29b-6732-4aa5-a553-9267f5f752a9
          Copyright @ 2013

          This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

          History
          : 16 December 2012
          : 5 February 2013
          Page count
          Pages: 7
          Funding
          This work was supported by State Natural Sciences Fund (grant #81041018) and Natural Sciences Fund of Beijing government (grant #7092021, 7112031). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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          Research Article
          Biology
          Anatomy and Physiology
          Ocular System
          Ocular Anatomy
          Medicine
          Anatomy and Physiology
          Ocular System
          Ocular Anatomy
          Clinical Research Design
          Cross-Sectional Studies
          Ophthalmology
          Macular Disorders
          Retinal Disorders

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