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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2023 Oct 27;259:35–44. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2023.10.019

Table 2.

Characteristics of Sampled Population versus Olmsted County

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

Gender
Sampled Population
Females 63.45 58.83 56.71 60.68 57.97 57.98
Males 36.55 41.17 43.29 39.32 42.03 42.01

Olmsted Census
Females 52.6 52.5 51.5 50.9 51.1 51.2
Males 47.4 47.5 48.5 49.1 48.9 48.8
p-value 0.158 0.448 0.545 0.211 0.404 0.411

Racial Demographics
Sampled Population
White 99.78 99.05 97.37 95.63 85.68 85.7
Asian 0.22 0.71 2.51 3.54 3.97 5.35
Black 0 0.238 0.13 0.82 2.99 3.99
Other 0 0 0 0 2.75 3.4

Olmsted Census
White 99.1 98 95.7 90.3 85.7 77.8
Asian 0.4 1.1 3 4.3 5.4 6.3
Black 0.3 0.4 0.7 2.7 4.8 6.8
Other 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.9 1.6 2.5
p-value 0.923 0.933 0.861 0.549 0.821 0.753

Age
Sampled Population
Mean 42.14 40.47 46.27 48.49 45.11 47.67
Standard Deviation 18.86 18.66 17.25 18.21 16.63 16.84
25th Percentile 26 25 31 35 32 34
75th Percentile 57 52 59 62 55 60

Olmsted Census
Mean 39.78 39.9 41.45 43.52 45.23 47.04
Standard Deviation 17.98 18.24 17.7 17.53 18.1 18.76
25th Percentile 25 25 28 30 30 31
75th Percentile 52 52 52 54 57 61
p-value 1 1 1 1 1 1