Association of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components with Retinal Artery Occlusion: An Epidemiologic and Genetic Analysis.
PURPOSE To examine the association between MetS, its five components (central obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and hypertriglyceridemia) and RAO, and to assess whether genetic susceptibility to key components of the MetS (hypertension, hyperglycemia) interacts with these associations. METHODS Based...