Effects of cigarette smoking on choroidal and retinal thickness and ocular pulse amplitude

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dc.authoriddervisogullari, mehmet serdar/0000-0003-2006-2906
dc.contributor.authorDervisogullan, Mehmet Serdar
dc.contributor.authorTotan, Yuksel
dc.contributor.authorTenlik, Aylin
dc.contributor.authorYuce, Aslihan
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-24T18:09:45Z
dc.date.available2025-10-24T18:09:45Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentMalatya Turgut Özal Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractBackground: In our study, we aimed to show the effects of smoking on choroidal thickness and ocular pulse amplitude. It is known that the anatomy and physiologic functions of the choroid is important in ocular diseases like glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration. Choroidal thickness is measured by the spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). The ocular pulse amplitude (OPA) is the difference between the systolic and diastolic intraocular pressure (IOP) and it is an index of choroidal perfusion. Design: This was a cross-sectional prospective observational study at the Turgut Ozal University Hospital setting. Participants: The test subjects were divided into two groups: the smokers group which consisted in 24 participants (20 male, 4 female) and the control group with 22 participants (16 male, 6 female). Methods: The participants underwent full ophthalmological examination including best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), spherical equivalent (SE) values of refractive errors, intraocular pressure (IOP), ocular pulse amplitude (OPA), central corneal thickness (CCT), axial length (AL) and choroidal thickness. The IOP and the OPA were measured with the dynamic contour tonometer. The CCT and the AL were measured with the Nidek AL-Scan (Nidek Co., Ltd., Gamagori, Japan). The choroidal thickness was measured by the Cirrus high-definition optical coherence tomography (Cirrus Version 6.0; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA). Results: Gender did not differ significantly between the groups (p = 0.12). The age, SE, IOP, OPA, CCT and AL did not differ significantly in smokers and control groups (p = 0.12, p = 0.37, p = 0.54, p = 0.80, p = 0.56 and p = 0.82, respectively). The nasal, temporal, central retinal (p = 021, p = 021, p = 0.11) and nasal, temporal, central choroidal thicknesses (p = 0.80, p = 0.39, p = 0.75) did not differ significantly between smokers and control groups. Conclusions: We could not find a significant difference in OPA, retinal and choroidal thicknesses between smokers and non smokers. Further studies including histopathological changes in larger groups are needed to show the effect of smoking on choroidal thickness especially in patients with ocular diseases like age-related macular degeneration.
dc.identifier.doi10.3109/15569527.2014.950380
dc.identifier.endpage221
dc.identifier.issn1556-9527
dc.identifier.issn1556-9535
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.pmid25198410
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84954184428
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3
dc.identifier.startpage217
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3109/15569527.2014.950380
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12899/3809
dc.identifier.volume34
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000361329600008
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofCutaneous And Ocular Toxicology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20251023
dc.subjectChoroidal thickness; ocular pulse amplitude; smoking
dc.titleEffects of cigarette smoking on choroidal and retinal thickness and ocular pulse amplitude
dc.typeArticle

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