Table 1.

Baseline Demographic and Clinical Characteristics Among Patients with Primary Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment (RRD) By Sex in the Truven MarketScan Database from 2007–2015

Characteristic	All Patients n = 61,071	Female n = 26,289 (43.0%)	Male n = 34,782 (57.0%)	p-value
Age (years) [mean (SD)]	57.2 (14.5)	57.1 (15.0)	57.4 (14.1)	0.02
Ocular Comorbidities [n, (%)] Myopia Pseudophakia Lattice Degeneration Vitreous Hemorrhage	2,419 (4.0) 1,175 (1.9) 9,916 (16.2) 7,385 (12.1)	1,237 (4.7) 484 (1.8) 4,594 (17.5) 2,958 (11.3)	1,182 (3.4) 691 (2.0) 5,322 (15.3) 4,427 (12.7)	<0.01 0.20 <0.01 <0.01
Diagnosing Provider [n, (%)] Unknown Optometrist Ophthalmologist Retina Specialist	43,104 (70.6) 2,953 (4.8) 2,061 (3.4) 12,953 (21.2)	18,508 (70.4) 1,349 (5.1) 887 (3.4) 5,545 (21.1)	24,596 (70.7) 1,604 (4.6) 1,174 (3.4) 7,408 (21.3)	0.03
Type of RRD Repair [n, (%)] None Pneumatic Retinopexy Scleral Buckle Laser Barricade Pars Plana Vitrectomy	22,534 (36.9) 5,240 (8.6) 3,870 (6.3) 7,044 (11.5) 22,383 (36.7)	10,999 (41.8) 1,966 (7.5) 1,590 (6.1) 3,485 (13.3) 8,249 (31.4)	11,535 (33.2) 3,274 (9.4) 2,280 (6.6) 3,559 (10.2) 14,134 (40.6)	<0.01
Received any Surgery [n, (%)]	38,537 (63.1%)
Second Confirmatory RRD Diagnosis in Record [n, (%)]	23,938 (39.2%)
Received Surgery with Confirmatory RRD [n, (%)]	22,275 (93.1%)

Standard Deviation (SD), Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD)