Oculomics - what the eye can reveal about systemic disease

Systemic 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 efficient and non-invasive. This presentation will highlight recent advances in ophthalmic technology and the key associations between structural biomarkers in the eye and systemic disease.