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Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2011 Aug 16;152(6):1014–1020. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2011.05.008

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries with new diagnoses of neovascular age-related macular degeneration

	1994 cohort (N= 2,497)	2000 cohort (N= 3,927)	p-value	2006 cohort (N= 6,041)	p-value
Age (yrs)	79.3	80.3^**	<.0001	81.4^**	<.0001
Male (%)	32.4%	33.8%	0.2521	28.2%^**	0.0001
Black (%)	1.9%	1.2%^*	0.0205	1.5%	0.2075
White (%)	97.0%	97.1%	0.7262	96.1%^*	0.0271
Charlson Index	1.5	1.7^**	<.0001	2.1^**	<.0001
Low vision/blindness (%)	4.4%	4.5%	0.9068	4.1%	0.5051

Significantly different from the 1994 cohort at the 5% level

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Significantly different from the 1994 cohort at the 1% level