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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Ophthalmol. 2001 Oct;119(10):1417–1436. doi: 10.1001/archopht.119.10.1417

Table 5.

Effect of Treatment on Risk of Loss of Visual Acuity Score of ≥15 Letters From Baseline*

Participants in AMD Categories 2, 3, and 4 (n = 3597)
Participants in AMD Categories 3 and 4 (n = 2549)
Treatment OR (99% CI) PValue OR (99% CI) PValue
Antioxidants vs no antioxidants 0.90 (0.74–1.09) .14 0.86 (0.70–1.07) .07
Zinc vs no zinc 0.88 (0.73–1.07) .09 0.84 (0.68–1.04) .04
Antioxidants vs placebo 0.88 (0.67–1.15) .22 0.85 (0.63–1.14) .16
 Adjusted 0.87 (0.67–1.15) .20 0.87 (0.65–1.17) .23
Zinc vs placebo 0.87 (0.66–1.13) .17 0.83 (0.62–1.11) .10
 Adjusted 0.82 (0.63–1.08) .07 0.82 (0.61–1.09) .07
Antioxidants + zinc vs placebo 0.79 (0.60–1.04) .03 0.73 (0.54–0.99) .008
 Adjusted 0.77 (0.58–1.03) .02 0.75 (0.55–1.02) .017
Total No. of participants with events 1197 1022
*

AMD indicates age-related macular degeneration; OR, odds ratio; and CI, confidence interval. Analysis by repeated-measures logistic regression, unadjusted. P≤.01 is considered statistically significant.

Adjusted for age, sex, race, AMD category, and baseline smoking status.