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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Ophthalmol. 2011 Apr 8;96(1):47–52. doi: 10.1136/bjo.2010.196907

Table 3.

Fitted slopes of retinal nerve fibre layer thickness and visual field threshold above and below the tipping point. All slopes are in decibels per micrometre

Slope below tipping point (95% CI) Slope above tipping point (95% CI) Difference between slopes (95% CI) P value
Mean 0.28 (0.18 to 0.38) 0.03 (−0.02 to 0.08) 0.25 (0.13 to 0.36) <0.001
Temporal 0.39 (0.14 to 0.63) −0.01 (−0.06 to 0.06) 0.39 (0.13 to 0.64) 0.003
Superior 0.25 (0.16 to 0.34) 0.02 (−0.01 to 0.05) 0.23 (0.14 to 0.33) <0.001
Nasal 0.11 (−0.02 to 0.24) −0.03 (−0.20 to 0.14) 0.14 (−0.07 to 0.36) 0.20
Inferior 0.16 (0.09 to 0.23) 0.03 (0.01 to 0.06) 0.13 (0.05 to 0.20) <0.001
1:00 0.55 (0.07 to 1.03) 0.04 (0.13 to 0.77) 0.51 (0.02 to 0.99) <0.001
5:00 0.35 (0.20 to 0.49) 0.01 (−0.03 to 0.05) 0.33 (0.18 to 0.48) <0.001
6:00 0.11 (0.06 to 0.15) 0.02 (−0.01 to 0.05) 0.09 (0.03 to 0.14) 0.001
7:00 0.17 (0.09 to 0.25) 0.01 (−0.04 to 0.06) 0.16 (0.06 to 0.26) <0.001
8:00 0.98 (0.39 to 1.57) −0.09 (−0.19 to 0.01) 0.95 (0.35 to 1.54) 0.002
9:00 0.52 (0.02 to 1.01) −0.09 (−0.19 to 0.01) 0.61 (0.10 to 1.12) 0.018
11:00 0.17 (0.10 to 0.24) 0.01 (−0.02 to 0.04) 0.16 (0.09 to 0.24) <0.001
12:00 0.15 (0.06 to 0.23) 0.01 (−0.02 to 0.03) 0.14 (0.05 to 0.22) 0.002