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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2011 Aug 4;118(12):2468–2473. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.05.007

Table 1.

Age, Sex, and Race/Ethnicity Distribution of Participants with Choroidal Nevi in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

No./Total (%) No./Total (%)


All Men Women P-
value
for sex
White Chinese Black Hispanic P-value for
race/ethnic
group

Age, years
    45–54 30/1805 (1.7) 19/842 (2.3) 11/963 (1.1) 0.06 21/684 (3.1) 2/213 (0.9) 1/485 (0.2) 6/422 (1.4) 0.002
    55–64 46/1728 (2.7) 17/816 (2.1) 29/912 (3.2) 0.20 37/667 (5.5) 0/209 (0.0) 6/471 (1.3) 3/381 (0.8) <0.001
    65–74 45/1816 (2.5) 22/883 (2.5) 23/933 (2.5) 0.97 35/739 (4.7) 1/205 (0.5) 3/511 (0.6) 6/361 (1.7) <0.001
    75–84 11/827 (1.3) 6/405 (1.5) 5/422 (1.2) 0.71 8/352 (2.3) 0/100 (0.0) 2/207 (1.0) 1/168 (0.6) 0.20
P-value for age 0.05 0.71 0.01 0.03 0.43 0.25 0.60
Crude rate 132/6176 (2.1) 64/2946 (2.2) 68/3230 (2.1) 101/2442 (4.1) 3/727 (0.4) 12/1675 (0.7) 16/1332 (1.2)
Age-Standardized prevalence* 2.0
*

Based on age distribution of the United States 2000 standard population