The vitreous humor is a highly aqueous eye fluid interfacing with the retina and lens and providing shape. Its molecular composition provides a readout for the eye's physiological status. Changes in cellular metabolism underlie vitreoretinal pathologies, but despite routine surgical collection of vitreous, only limited reports of metabolism in the vitreous of human patients have been described. Vitreous samples from patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment ( n = 25) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy ( n = 9) were profiled along with control human vitreous samples ( n = 8) by untargeted mass-spectrometry-based metabolomics. Profound changes were observed in diabetic retinopathy vitreous, including altered glucose metabolism and activation of the pentose phosphate pathway, which provides reducing equivalents to counter oxidative stress. In addition, purine metabolism was altered in diabetic retinopathy, with decreased xanthine and elevated levels of related purines (inosine, hypoxanthine, urate, allantoate) generated in oxidant-producing reactions. In contrast, the vitreous metabolite profiles of retinal detachment patients were similar to controls. In total, our results suggest a rewiring of vitreous metabolism in diabetic retinopathy that underlies disease features such as oxidative stress and furthermore illustrates how the vitreous metabolic profile may be impacted by disease.
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Purpose: Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is the leading cause of surgical failure following rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD). In this study, we aimed to explore ocular and systemic risk factors for PVR due to RRD in a large patient database.
Methods: Patients who have a diagnosis of RRD and PVR, and who have been seen in the last seven years prior to analysis (January 2015-February 2023) were identified in the Vestrum Health database.
Purpose: To explore how serum diabetes autoantibodies are related to the development of early diabetic retinopathy in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Methods: In this prospective and observational study, 62 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus who had not yet developed clinical diabetic retinopathy were followed up for at least 5 years. Healthy volunteers aged 10 to 20 years were also included.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
January 2025
Department of Endocrinology, Huai'an Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University and Huai'an Second People's Hospital, Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
Objectives: To examine the association between the age at onset of diabetes and the risk of all-cause mortality in a population of individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and to identify risk factors associated with all-cause mortality in young-onset T2DM (YOD) patients in China.
Methods: This study utilized a cohort of 9759 patients who were diagnosed with T2DM and who were registered and enrolled in the National Basic Public Health Service Management Program in Qinghe District (now Qingjiangpu District) and Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, China. The patients were observed from November 2013 to July 2014, and all-cause mortality data were obtained by comprehensive matching with the Huai'an City Resident Mortality Database as of December 31, 2019.
Cardiovasc Diabetol
January 2025
Division of Cardiovascular Research, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK.
Background: Prior studies have demonstrated an association between retinal vascular features and cardiovascular disease (CVD), however most studies have only evaluated a few simple parameters at a time. Our aim was to determine whether a deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) model could be used to predict CVD outcomes from routinely obtained diabetic retinal screening photographs and to compare its performance to a traditional clinical CVD risk score.
Methods: We included 6127 individuals with type 2 diabetes without myocardial infarction or stroke prior to study entry.
Chem Biodivers
January 2025
University of Manouba Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sidi Thabet, Laboratory of Physiopathology, Food and Biomolecules, BiotechPolet, BP-66, 2020, Sidi Thabet,, 2020, Ariana, TUNISIA.
Olive mill wastewater (OMWW), a byproduct of olive oil extraction, constitutes a natural resource of phenolic compounds. Hydroxytyrosol (HT), the predominant compound, exhibits antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and neuroprotective effects. This research aims to evaluate the effect of OMWW bioproduct rich in HT on retinal glial function, glutamate metabolism and synaptic transmission alterations mediated by hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia in high-calorie diet (HCD) induced diabetic retinopathy (DR) in Psammomys obesus.
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