Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics.

From: Different characteristics of retinal damage between chronic hypertension and hypertensive retinopathy

 

Control group (n = 101)

HTN group (n = 92)

HTNR group (n = 48)

P value

Age (mean ± SD, years)

50.9 ± 13.9

52.3 ± 8.0

48.2 ± 9.9

0.081

Sex (male, %)

49 (48.5)

38 (41.3)

26 (54.2)

0.320

Laterality (right, %)

53 (52.5)

53 (57.6)

25 (52.1)

0.828

BCVA (mean ± SD, logMAR)

−0.04 ± 0.06

−0.01 ± 0.07

0.03 ± 0.14

 < 0.001

SE (mean ± SD, diopter)

−1.00 ± 2.38

−0.49 ± 2.49

−1.41 ± 2.49

0.091

IOP (mean ± SD, mmHg)

15.5 ± 2.9

15.2 ± 2.9

15.4 ± 3.3

0.831

Axial length (mean ± SD, mm)

24.2 ± 1.4

23.8 ± 1.3

24.1 ± 1.3

0.087

HTN duration (mean ± SD, years)

n/a

7.4 ± 5.6

4.3 ± 3.9

 < 0.001

SBP (mean ± SD, mmHg)

122.7 ± 12.5

131.1 ± 11.3

134.9 ± 13.1

0.060

DBP (mean ± SD, mmHg)

79.2 ± 10.3

81.5 ± 9.9

84.1 ± 11.2

0.082

CMT (mean ± SD, μm)

251.7 ± 19.1

248.0 ± 19.2

243.3 ± 19.2

0.042

pRNFL (mean ± SD, μm)

97.1 ± 9.3

96.0 ± 9.1

91.9 ± 16.0

0.025

  1. BCVA best-corrected visual acuity, SE spherical equivalent, IOP intraocular pressure, HTN hypertension, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, CMT central macular thickness, pRNFL peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer.
  2. Values in boldface (P < 0.050) are statistically significant.