Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of patients with central serous chorioretinopathy included in the current study

Demographic and/or clinical feature	aCSC n = 60	cCSC n = 100	p value
Age, years, mean ± SD	48.0 ± 11.2	55.7 ± 10.4	< 0.001
Sex, n (%)
Male	46 (77.6)	79 (79.0)	0.705
Female	14 (22.4)	21 (21.0)
Laterality, n (%)
Right	33 (55.0)	49 (49.0)	0.737
Left	27 (45.0)	51 (51.0)
Ethnicity, n (%)
Caucasian	55 (91.7)	85 (85.0)
Asian	0 (0)	2 (2.0)
Hispanic	2 (3.3)	1 (1.0)	0.225
Middle East-Arabic	3 (5.0)	12 (12.0)
Baseline SE, D, mean ± SD	+ 0.56 D ± 1.58	+ 0.74 D ± 3.1	0.144
Steroid use n (%)	16 (26.6)	17 (17.0)	0.163

aCSC = acute central serous chorioretinopathy; cCSC = chronic central serous chorioretinopathy, SD = standard deviation, SE = standard error