Table 1 Clinical demographics of study eyes with open-angle glaucoma with (+) or without (āˆ’) choroidal microvasculature dropout (CMvD).

From: Choroidal microvasculature dropout is spatially associated with optic nerve head microvasculature loss in open-angle glaucoma

Ā 

CMvD(āˆ’) (n = 48)

CMvD(+) (n = 48)

P value

Age

56.5 ± 11.2

55.6 ± 10.4

0.707

Sex (M:F)

30:18

21:27

0.066

SE

āˆ’Ā 2.80 ± 3.2

āˆ’Ā 2.40 ± 2.9

0.517

AXL

25.36 ± 1.2

25.36 ± 1.4

0.996

CCT

537.8 ± 39.8

543.2 ± 36.7

0.502

MD

āˆ’Ā 6.35 ± 3.3

āˆ’Ā 6.58 ± 3.6

0.745

Baseline IOP

15.0 ± 4.4

15.6 ± 3.9

0.467

SBP

124.8 ± 14.0

122.9 ± 12.1

0.546

DBP

76.3 ± 8.7

74.9 ± 9.0

0.501

MOPP

51.6 ± 6.0

50.6 ± 6.5

0.511

Average RNFLT

74.18 ± 9.4

70.71 ± 10.3

0.084

Superior RNFLT

97.93 ± 20.5

94.18 ± 21.2

0.384

Inferior RNFLT

74.93 ± 15.3

68.14 ± 11.4

0.016*

Average cpVD

43.39 ± 4.9

41.73 ± 5.2

0.114

Superior cpVD

45.58 ± 5.4

45.10 ± 6.5

0.703

Inferior cpVD

41.20 ± 5.7

38.10 ± 5.1

0.006*

  1. Data are reported as a mean ± standard deviation.
  2. CMvD choroidal microvasculature dropout, M male, F female, AXL axial length, MD mean deviation, IOP intraocular pressure, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, MOPP mean ocular perfusion pressure, RNFLT retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, cpVD circumpapillary vessel density, ONH VD optic nerve head vessel density, pCVD parapapillary choroidal vessel density, ONH-MvD optic nerve head microvasculature dropout.
  3. *P < 0.05 by unpaired t-test unless otherwise indicated.
  4. **Chi-square test.