Table 4.
Previous Cross-Sectional Studies on Changes of Average Choroidal Thickness Based on SS-OCT and Automatic Algorithm
| Number of Eyes | Estimated Difference (95% CI) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author (Year) | Country | Device | Ctr | NDR | DR | NDR Versus Control | Any DR Versus NDR | Adjusted Factors |
| Kim (2018) | Korea | Triton | 45 | 30 | 89 | −47.8 (−83.5 to −12.1) | 18.1 (−3.8 to 40.0) | None |
| Horváth (2018) | Hungary | Triton | 46 | 17 | – | −33.8 (−69.5 to 1.9) | – | None |
| Laíns (2018) | USA | Atlantis | 50 | 27 | 133 | 23.3 (−7.3 to 53.9) | −47.9 (−63.5 to −32.3) | None |
| Huang (2020) | China | Atlantis | 1027 | 946 | 304 | −14.5 (−21.1 to −7.9) | −11.2 (−19.6 to −2.8) | Age, sex, AL, BMI, SBP, DBP, TC, TG, HbA1c, and FBG |
| Wang (2020) | China | Triton | – | 1080 | 267 | – | 7.6 (−2.0 to 17.3) | Age, sex, AL, duration, BMI, SBP, DBP, TC, and HbA1c |
| Inverse-variance pooled estimate | −14.5 (−20.7 to −8.3) | −7.6 (−13.3 to −1.9) | ||||||
Ctr = control; NDR = non-diabetic retinopathy; AL = axial length; BMI = body mass index; SBP = systolic blood pressure; DBP = diastolic blood pressure; FBG = fasting blood glucose; TC = total cholesterol; TG = triglyceride.