Emily J Patterson, Alistair D Bounds, Siegfried K Wagner, Richard Kadri-Langford, Robin Taylor, Dan Daly
Chronic, non-communicable diseases present a major barrier to living a long and healthy life. In many cases, early diagnosis can facilitate prevention, monitoring, and treatment efforts, improving patient outcomes. There is therefore a critical need to make screening techniques as accessible, unintimidating, and cost-effective as possible. The association between ocular biomarkers and systemic health and disease (oculomics) presents an attractive opportunity for detection of systemic diseases, as ophthalmic techniques are often relatively low-cost, fast, and non-invasive...
April 17, 2024: Ophthalmology and Therapy