A 58-year-old woman with a 15-year history of hypertension attends routine eye screening. Fundoscopy shows arteriovenous nicking, copper-wire arterioles, and scattered hard exudates but NO optic disc swelling. Which finding best distinguishes her chronic hypertensive retinopathy from acute hypertensive retinopathy with papilledema?

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