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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Ophthalmol. 2009 Sep;127(9):1136–1145. doi: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.187

Table 4.

Breakdown of Diagnostic Categories by Ancestrya

No. (%)
Overall All Eyes
Overall by Worse Eyea
Diagnostic Category AD (n=1496) ED (n=1588) AD (n=797) ED (n=850)
Normal 657 (44) 645 (41) 307 (39) 303 (36)
Patient 839 (56) 943 (59) 490 (61) 547 (64)
Suspect by source 120 (8) 116 (7) 53 (7) 53 (6)
Ocular hypertension 150 (10) 243 (15) 67 (8) 109 (13)
Abnormal GON only 157 (11) 263 (17) 80 (10) 140 (17)
Abnormal VF only 227 (15) 137 (9) 153 (19) 106 (12)
Abnormal VF + GON 185 (12) 184 (11) 137 (17) 139 (16)

Abbreviations: AD, African descent; ED, European descent; GON, glaucomatous optic neuropathy; VF, visual field.

a

To determine worse eye, we assumed the order shown (best on top to worst on bottom).