Table 1.
Patient demographic characteristics of legally blind patients and the control group patients.
| Age (years) ± SD | Legally Blind group (N = 391) |
Control group (N = 557,980) |
Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70.01 ± 10.8 | 66.72 ± 9.5 | <.001 | |
| Sex | |||
| Female | 259 (66.2%) | 343,161 (61.5%) | .062 |
| Male | 132 (33.8%) | 214,704 (38.5%) | .062 |
| Race | |||
| Caucasian | 305 (80.7%) | 434,912 (81.1%) | <.001 |
| African American | 40 (10.6%) | 44,799 (8.4%) | <.001 |
| Hispanic | 22 (5.8%) | 33,572 (6.3%) | <.001 |
| Asian | a (0.8%) | 8248 (1.5%) | <.001 |
| Native American | a (0.5%) | 2529 (0.5%) | <.001 |
| Other | a(1.6%) | 11,876 (2.2%) | <.001 |
| Obesity | 126 (32.2%) | 17,235 (30.9%) | .586 |
a
- Numbers between 1 and 10 are not reported due to HCUP data use agreement.