Accepted Article No association between sleep apnoea and macular telangiectasia type 2 and its markers of severity and progression: a case-control study and retrospective cohort study Martin G Lee BApSc(Orth) MPhil(Med), 1 Nathaniel S Marshall PhD, 2,3 Traci E Clemons PhD, 4 Michael L Hunter PhD, 5 Alan L James FRACP PhD, 6 Ron R Grunstein MD PhD, 2,7 Vuong Nguyen PhD, 1 Anna Campain PhD 1 and Mark C Gillies FRANZCO PhD 1 1. Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2. CIRUS- Centre for Sleep and Chronobiology, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia 3. Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 4. The Emmes Corporation, Rockville, MD, USA 5. School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 6. Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 7. Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Study was conducted at the Save Sight Institute, South Block, Grounds of Sydney Eye Hospital, 8 Macquarie Street, Sydney, Australia, 2000. Correspondence: Martin Lee, Save Sight Institute, South Block, Grounds of Sydney Eye Hospital, 8 Macquarie Street, Sydney, Australia, 2000. martin.lee@novartis.com Short running title: SAMTel study Received 12 February 2018; accepted 21 July 2018 Conflict of interest: None This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/ceo.13363