• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Effects of catechine and epicatechine on visual function and retinal perfusion
  • Beteiligte: Kirkova, Radina; Tanev, Ivan
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2022
  • Erschienen in: Acta Ophthalmologica
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2022.231
  • ISSN: 1755-375X; 1755-3768
  • Schlagwörter: Ophthalmology ; General Medicine
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>The aim of our study is to evaluate the effects of flavonoids catechine and epicatechine ot visual function, contrast sensitivity and retinal perfusion.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>It’s a prospective cohort study. A total of 30 patients are subdivided into two cohorts. Group A: patients with no ophthalmic pathology and, Group B: patients with neovascular age‐related macular degeneration /nAMD/. We performed a full ophthalmic examination /best corrected visual acuity for distance and near, assessment of contrast sensitivity – Pelli Robson test, tonometry, biomicroscopy, ophthalmoscopy and optic coherence tomography – angiography OCT‐A/ before and two hours after consumption of 50 g dark chocolate with 100% cocoa content.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Results of all the exams /visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, OCT‐A indexes for retinal perfusion/ are statistically processed.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>High content of flavonoids catechine and epicatechine in dark chocolate has beneficial impact on visual function, contrast sensitivity and retinal perfusion I Group A and Group B, with slight variation between two groups.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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