[Vascular risk factors and retinal occlusive disease].

Background And Objective: The aim of the present study is to define the risk factors associated with different retinal occlusive diseases, such as retinal venous thrombosis, arterial emboli and ischaemic anterior optic neuritis. Patients with any of these entities entered the study.

Patients And Method: A cross-sectional study on 284 consecutive subjects, aged 25-93, who were initially attended at the ophthalmology unit and then sent to the internal medicine unit.