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ea0056p534 | Obesity | ECE2018

The relationship between obesity, insulin resistance and conjunctival impression cytology

Dagdeviren Murat , Altay Mustafa , Yildiz Zennure , Simsek Gulcin , Citirik Mehmet , Ates Ihsan , Dagdeviren Tanyel S , Yildiz Canan , Sahin Tugba

Introduction: This study was designed to determine whether obesity causes inflammation on both conjunctival epithelium cells as well as on squamous metaplasia.Materials and methods: Around 61 volunteer participants who had no previous history of illness or drug use were involved in this study. Of them, nearly 20 were obese, and 41 were of normal weight. We measured the glucose and insulin values for all volunteers. We also measured the Body Mass Index (B...