Eye Abnormality Elevates Heart Disease Death Risk, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, and National University of Singapore Study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The eyes may carry important early clues to heart disease, signaling damage to tiny blood vessels long before symptoms start to show elsewhere, researchers reported on Tuesday. People with a type of eye damage known as retinopathy were more likely to die of heart disease over the next 12 years than those without it, according to the team at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne in Australia and the National University of Singapore.