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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2008 Feb 21;145(5):894–901. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2007.12.025

Table 1.

Stratus OCT™ Retinal Thickness in the Central Subfield According to Clinical Characteristics in Diabetic Subjects with Minimal or No Retinopathy

Overall By Gender
Women Men

N Mean ± SD P-value§ Unadjusted P-value§ Adjusted for Gender N Mean ± SD N Mean ± SD
Overall 97 201 ± 22

Gender <0.001 ---
    Women 48 194 ± 23
    Men 49 209 ± 18

Retinopathy Severity 0.71 0.70
    Level 10 (No retinopathy) 67 201 ± 21 38 196 ± 22 29 207 ± 20
    Level 20 (Very mild NPDR) 30 203 ± 23 10 185 ± 27 20 211 ± 15

Age 0.63 0.98
    < 55 years 49 202 ± 22 26 194 ± 23 23 210 ± 18
    >= 55 years 48 201 ± 22 22 194 ± 23 26 207 ± 18

Combination Diabetes Type/Duration 0.15 0.11
    Type 1 - < 10 years 10 212 ± 12 6 214 ± 11 4 210 ± 16
    Type 1 - >= 10 years 14 203 ± 24 6 190 ± 20 8 212 ± 22
    Type 2 - < 10 years 46 197 ± 23 24 189 ± 24 22 205 ± 19
    Type 2 - >= 10 years 27 205 ± 20 12 195 ± 23 15 212 ± 14

Duration of Diabetes 0.14 0.18
    < 10 years 56 199 ± 22 30 194 ± 24 26 205 ± 18
    >= 10 years 41 204 ± 21 18 193 ± 21 23 212 ± 17

Diabetes Type 0.17 0.14
    Type 1 24 207 ± 20 12 202 ± 20 12 211 ± 20
    Type 2 73 200 ± 22 36 191 ± 24 37 208 ± 17

HbA1c* 0.37 0.23
    < 8% 34 210 ± 18 13 200 ± 16 21 216 ± 17
    >= 8% 13 215 ± 15 6 212 ± 14 7 218 ± 16

Fellow Eye Retinopathy Severity 0.27 0.33
    Level 10 (No retinopathy) 67 200 ± 22 34 193 ± 23 33 206 ± 19
    Level 20 (Very mild NPDR) 12 205 ± 27 5 185 ± 29 7 219 ± 14
    Worse than level 20 9 208 ± 23 4 199 ± 30 5 214 ± 15

Best Corrected Visual Acuity (letter score) 0.21 0.24
    20/12 – 20/20 (93-85) 46 203 ± 20 20 197 ± 22 26 208 ± 17
    20/20 – 20/25 (84-80) 29 203 ± 22 18 198 ± 20 11 210 ± 23
    20/25 – 20/32 (79-74) 22 196 ± 26 10 179 ± 27 12 210 ± 15

Refractive Error (Spherical Equivalent) 0.39 0.26
    ≥ 0.00 D 51 201 ± 21 25 196 ± 21 26 205 ± 19
    < 0.00 D to −3.00 D 35 201 ± 24 18 189 ± 25 17 213 ± 15
    < −3.00 D 11 207 ± 21 5 204 ± 24 6 210 ± 19

1 subject completed the fundus photography 11 weeks after completion of OCT

*

Not done for 50 subjects

Not done for 8 subjects and nongradable for 1 subject

Continuous measure of characteristic used in calculation of p-value

§

P-value from least squares regression models