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Macular pigment optical density: repeatability, intereye correlation, and effect of ocular dominance

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Ophthalmology, August 2016
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Title
Macular pigment optical density: repeatability, intereye correlation, and effect of ocular dominance
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Clinical Ophthalmology, August 2016
DOI 10.2147/opth.s111708
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Pinakin Gunvant Davey, Silverio D Alvarez, Jessica Y Lee

Abstract

To evaluate short-term repeatability, intereye correlation, and effect of ocular dominance on macular pigment optical density (MPOD) measurements obtained using the QuantifEye Heterochromatic Flicker Photometer. A total of 72 study participants were enrolled in this prospective, cross-sectional study. Participants underwent a comprehensive ocular evaluation, including visual acuity, evaluation of ocular dominance, slit lamp examination, intraocular pressure measurement, and optic nerve head and macula analysis using optical coherence tomography and fundus photography. All study participants after initial training underwent MPOD measurement twice in both eyes in a randomized sequence. The repeatability was tested using Altman and Bland plots for first measurements with the second measurements for right eye and left eye and additionally by grouping eyes as a function of ocular dominance. The Pearson correlation coefficient was performed to assess the intereye correlation of MPOD values. The mean age of study participants was 35.5 years (range 22-68 years). The mean MPOD measurements for OD (right eye) and OS (left eye) were 0.47 and 0.48, respectively, which followed a normal distribution (Shapiro-Wilk test, P=0.6 and 0.2). The 95% limits of agreement of Altman and Bland plots for the first and second measurements were -0.12 to +0.11 and -0.13 to +0.12 for OD and OS, respectively. The correlation coefficient of mean MPOD measurements of OD and OS was r statistic =0.94 (Pearson correlation coefficient P<0.0001; r (2) 0.89). The 95% limits of agreement of Altman and Bland plots when evaluated by laterality of eye or by ocular dominance were narrow, with limits of agreement ranging from -0.13 to +0.12. The MPOD measurements obtained using the QuantifEye show good short-term repeatability. There is excellent intereye correlation, indicating that the MPOD values of one eye data can predict the fellow eye value with 89% accuracy. The ocular dominance had no bearing on the outcome of this psychophysical test in ocular healthy eyes.

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Unknown 24 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 8%
Researcher 2 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 4 17%
Unknown 9 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 4 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 13%
Physics and Astronomy 2 8%
Chemistry 1 4%
Materials Science 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 12 50%
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