Cental macular thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus without clinical retinopathy

Objective. to compare central macular thickness (cmt) of diabetic patients with type 2 diabetes without clinical retinopathy and healthy subjects. materials and methods. optical coherence tomography (oct) measurements were performed in 124 eyes of 62 subjects with diabetes mellitus without clinical retinopathy (study group: 39 females,23 males; mean age: 55.06 ± 9.77 years) and in 120 eyes of 60 healthy subjects (control group: 35 females,25 males; mean age: 55.78 ± 10.34 years). blood biochemistry parameters were analyzed in all cases. the data for central macular thickness (at 1 mm),the levels of fasting plasma glucose,and glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c) were compared in both groups. results. the mean central macular thickness was 232.12 ± 24.41 μm in the study group and 227.19 ± 29.94 μm in the control group. the mean hba1c level was 8.92 ± 2.58% in the study group and 5.07 ± 0.70% in the control group (p = 0.001). no statistically significant relationship was found between cmt,hba1c,and fasting plasma glucose level in either group (p > 0.05). conclusions. central macular thickness was not significantly thicker in patients with type 2 diabetes without clinical retinopathy than in healthy subjects. © 2013 mehmet demir et al.