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MACULAR PIGMENT OPTICAL DENSITY IS LOWER IN TYPE 2 DIABETES, COMPARED WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES AND NORMAL CONTROLS.
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September 2015
*Department of Optometry, School of Physics, College of Sciences and Health, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland; †Department of Ophthalmology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; ‡School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; §School of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences and Health, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland; and ¶African Vision Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu Nalal, Durban, South Africa.
Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the optical density of macular pigment in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes subjects relative to normal controls.
Methods: One hundred and fifty subjects were recruited to the study and divided into one of the three study groups on the basis of their health status, as follows: Group 1: Healthy controls; Group 2: Type 1 diabetes; Group 3: Type 2 diabetes. Macular Pigment Optical Density, at 0.