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The retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), ganglion cell layer (GC), inner plexiform layer (IPL), macula and choroidal (CH) thickness were compared between 52 drug-na\u00efve patients with primary insomnia and 45 age-gender-BMI-smoke status matched healthy controls (HC). The patients with primary insomnia differed from the HC regarding RNFL-Global (p = 0.024) and RNFL-Nasal inferior (p = 0.010); IPL-Temporal (p &lt; 0.001), IPL-Nasal (p &lt; 0.001); CH-Global (p &lt; 0.001), CH-Temporal (p = 0.004), CH-Nasal (p &lt; 0.001), and CH-Fovea (p = 0.019). ISI correlated with RNFL-Global and RNFL-Nasal inferior. The regression analysis revealed that ISI was the significant predictor for the thickness of RNFL- Nasal inferior (p = 0.020), RNFL-Global (p = 0.031), and CH-Nasal (p = 0.035) in patients with primary insomnia. Sleep disorders are seen commonly in patients with psychiatric, including ocular diseases. Adjusting the effect of insomnia can help to clarify the consistency in findings of OCT.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/brainsci10030178","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,19]],"date-time":"2020-03-19T10:01:35Z","timestamp":1584612095000},"page":"178","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Insomnia Might Influence the Thickness of Choroid, Retinal Nerve Fiber and Inner Plexiform Layer"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7572-882X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cigdem","family":"Sahbaz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Vak\u0131f University, Istanbul 34093, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ahmet","family":"Elbay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology, Bezmialem Vak\u0131f University, Istanbul 34093, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2049-1172","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mine","family":"Ozcelik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medicine, Bezmialem Vak\u0131f University, Istanbul 34093, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hakan","family":"Ozdemir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology, Bezmialem Vak\u0131f University, Istanbul 34093, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"547","DOI":"10.1016\/S1474-4422(15)00021-6","article-title":"The neurobiology, investigation, and treatment of chronic insomnia","volume":"14","author":"Riemann","year":"2015","journal-title":"Lancet. 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