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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 6.

Participant Demographics for the Full Eligible ADAGES and DIGS Cohorts Broken Down by Self-reported Ancestry and Sitea

%
All (n=1657)
UAB (n=570)
NYEE (n=476)
UCSD (n=611)
AD (n=803) ED (n=854) P Value AD (n=329) ED (n=241) AD (n=299) ED (n= 177) AD (n=175) ED (n=436)
Age, y, mean (SD) 51.1 (14.1) 55.7 (15.5) <.001 48.6 (13.9) 50.2 (14.4) 51.4 (13.8) 50.3 (14.9) 55.2 (14.0) 61.0 (14.4)
 ≤29 7.0 7.1 6.4 7.5 8.7 14.1 5.1 4.1
 30–39 13.0 8.3 20.1 15.8 8.7 7.9 6.9 4.4
 40–49 26.4 17.0 31.6 27.8 22.7 19.8 22.9 9.9
 50–59 26.5 23.9 20.7 21.2 34.5 31.1 24.0 22.5
 60–69 15.3 22.1 10.3 16.2 15.4 17.0 24.6 27.5
 ≥70 11.8 21.6 10.9 11.6 10.0 10.2 16.6 31.7
Male 35.4 40.5 .03 30.4 39.4 39.5 37.3 37.7 42.4
Hispanic ethnicity 3.6 7.7 <.001 0.0 0.0 9.0 20.3 1.1 6.9
Heart disease 7.4 12.3 .001 10.6 11.6 3.0 4.5 8.6 15.8
Family history of glaucoma 39.9 39.8 >.99 34.4 35.3 48.2 46.3 36.0 39.7
Diabetes mellitus 12.3 4.8 <.001 12.5 5.8 10.0 2.8 16.0 5.0
High blood pressure 43.7 30.4 <.001 45.0 28.2 36.1 26.0 54.3 33.5

Abbreviations: AD, African descent; ADAGES, African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study; DIGS, Diagnostic Innovations and Glaucoma Study; ED, European descent; NYEE, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary; UAB, University of Alabama; UCSD, University of California, San Diego.

a

ADAGES, N=1222; DIGS, N=436.