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. 2013 Jun 14;54(6):4140–4147. doi: 10.1167/iovs.12-11471

Table 3.

SFCT (Median ± SD) in Infants and Adults by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity


Young Preterm Infants
Term-Aged Preterm Infants
Term Infants
Adult Subjects
Sex, median ± SD, μm
 Male 174 ± 60 213 ± 90 331 ± 52 248 ± 72
 Female 176 ± 49 324 ± 80 328 ± 73 263 ± 70
Race and ethnicity, median ± SD, μm
 African American 178 ± 36 222 ± 95 313 ± 63 NA
 White 197 ± 64 324 ± 79 359 ± 63 258 ± 17
 Hispanic 147 ± 97 NA 293 ± 60* NA
 Asian NA NA 300 ± NA 163 ± 112
Total, median ± SD, μm 176 ± 53 289 ± 92 329 ± 66 258 ± 66
*

Hispanic term infant subfoveal choroid is significantly thinner than Caucasian subfoveal choroid (P = 0.014).