. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2008 May 16;115(9):1480–1488.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.03.009

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of participants included in this analysis

		91 participants included in two-year analysis
Baseline characteristics of subjects and study eye		Mean
Age		78.3 years
Visual acuity		20/55
Area of GA		9.9 sq mm
% of central 10.2 mm² (4 MPS disc areas) having GA		50%
Diagnosis of fellow eye (number of subjects (%))
GA (i.e. bilateral GA)		60 (66%)
Choroidal neovascularization		23 (25%)
Drusen		6 (7%)
Unknown		2 (2%)

GA = geographic atrophy, MPS = Macular Photocoagulation Study.