The retina, the window to predict heart disease or dementia

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In the future, ophthalmologists will be able to detect not only eye pathologies, but also neuropsychiatric, cardiac, metabolic and pulmonary pathologies.

Seyedeh Maryam Zekavat and Saman Doroodgar Jorshery examine retinal thickness data and images Massive eye and ear

01/25/2024

Updated at 2:46 p.m.

Through the retina, scientists believe it is possible to identify a person’s risk of suffering from a disease in the future. And not only eye pathologies, but also neuropsychiatric, cardiac, metabolic and pulmonary pathologies.

This is confirmed by a team of researchers from Mass Eye and Ear Institute at Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard

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