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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2023 May 17;253:74–85. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2023.04.013

Table 4.

TED Patients with and without Vision-Threatening Manifestations by demographic characteristics, Diabetes and Smoking history

Univariable Multivariable§
Characteristic TED Patients
without VTM
TED Patients with
VTM
P value OR 95% CI P-Value OR 95% CI P-Value
N (%) N (%)
All Patients 33,660 (100) 7,551 (18)
Age Group (years) 18-<30 1,234 (4) 207 (3) < 0.0001 [Ref]
30-39 2,521 (7) 476 (6) 1.16 (0.97, 1.40) 0.11 1.14 (0.95, 1.38) 0.16
40-49 4,487 (13) 916 (12) 1.28 (1.08, 1.52) 0.005 1.25 (1.05, 1.49) 0.01
50-59 8,293 (25) 1,845 (24) 1.37 (1.17, 1.62) 0.0001 1.32 (1.12, 1.55) 0.001
60-69 9,865 (29) 2,211 (29) 1.38 (1.17, 1.62) 0.0001 1.30 (1.11, 1.54) 0.002
70+ 7,260 (22) 1,896 (25) 1.61 (1.37, 1.90) <0.0001 1.51 (1.28, 1.79) < 0.0001
Gender Male 6,129 (18) 1,321 (17) 0.15 [Ref]
Female 27,531 (82) 6,230 (83) 1.03 (0.97, 1.11) 0.27 1.12 (1.04, 1.20) 0.002
Race White 24,344 (72) 5,695 (75) < 0.0001 [Ref]
Asian 872 (3) 178 (2) 0.88 (0.74, 1.03) 0.12 1.01 (0.85, 1.20) 0.92
Black or African American 3,288 (10) 765 (10) 0.97 (0.89, 1.05) 0.44 1.01 (0.92, 1.10) 0.84
Other 373 (1) 91 (1) 1.02 (0.81, 1.30) 0.86 1.06 (0.83, 1.35) 0.63
Unknown 4,783 (14) 822 (11) ** 0.72 (0.66, 0.79) <0.0001 0.89 (0.81, 0.98) 0.02
Ethnicity Not Hispanic 25,999 (77) 6,268 (83) < 0.0001 [Ref]
Hispanic 1,488 (4) 361 (5) 1.01 (0.90, 1.15) 0.81 1.14 (1.00, 1.29) 0.05
Unknown 6,173 (18) 922 (12) ** 0.61 (0.57, 0.66) <0.0001 0.67 (0.61, 0.73) < 0.0001
Geographic Region South 8,364 (25) 2,047 (27) < 0.0001 [Ref]
Midwest 7,012 (21) 1,504 (20) 0.88 (0.81, 0.95) 0.001 0.82 (0.76, 0.89) < 0.0001
Northeast 5,358 (16) 1,319 (17) 0.99 (0.92, 1.08) 0.89 1.06 (0.98, 1.15) 0.18
West 4,556 (14) 976 (13) 0.86 (0.79, 0.94) 0.001 0.92 (0.84, 1.00) 0.06
Unknown 8,370 (25) 1,705 (23) ** 0.82 (0.76, 0.88) <0.0001 0.88 (0.81, 0.95) 0.0006
Type I Diabetes Mellitus No 32,966 (98) 7,032 (93) < 0.0001 [Ref]
Yes 694 (2) 519 (7) 3.59 (3.19, 4.05) <0.0001 3.36 (2.95, 3.83) < 0.0001
Type II Diabetes Mellitus No 28,754 (85) 6,097 (81) < 0.0001 [Ref]
Yes 4,906 (15) 1,454 (19) 1.39 (1.30, 1.49) <0.0001 1.06 (0.98, 1.14) 0.12
Smoking Status Never 17,616 (52) 3,604 (48) < 0.0001 [Ref]
Former 7,628 (23) 1,895 (25) 1.21 (1.14, 1.29) <0.0001 1.17 (1.09, 1.24) < 0.0001
Current 5,942 (18) 1,656 (22) 1.36 (1.28, 1.45) <0.0001 1.30 (1.21, 1.39) < 0.0001

Abbreviations: TED = Thyroid Eye Disease; VTM = Vision Threatening Manifestation; CI = Confidence Interval; Ref = Reference.

*

Unless otherwise noted, p-value of the association between each factor and VTM was derived using the Chi-Square test of association.

**

Category not included as part of the statistical test.

§

Multivariable logistic regression model contained all of the above factors (age group, gender, geographic region, race, ethnicity, smoking status, type I diabetes, type II diabetes). Patients with unknown smoking status were excluded from the analyses (TED Patients w/o VTMs (N=2474); Patients with VTMs (N=396). Bold values indicate statistically significant results (p<0.05).