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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2013 Jun 21;156(3):468–477.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2013.04.040

Table 1. Prevalence of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) and associated risk factors at cohort entry for patients with posterior or panuveitis.

Characteristic Number
of Eyes
Number
of Eyes
with CNV
Prevalence Crude Odds
Ratio
(95% Confidence
Interval)
Crude
p-value
Adjusted Odds
Ratioa
(95% Confidence
Interval)
Overall
adjusted
p-value
Age at uveitis diagnosis,
years
0.81 0.43
  ≤35 1784 38 2.1% Reference Reference
  >35 2255 43 1.9% 0.94 (0.56-1.57) 0.81 (0.48-1.35)
Gender 0.57 0.81
  Male 1437 26 1.8% Reference Reference
  Female 2604 55 2.1% 1.17 (0.68-2.02) 1.07 (0.62-1.87)
Race 0.05 0.25
  White 2833 62 2.2% Reference Reference
  Black 534 9 1.7% 0.76 (0.35-1.67) 1.18 (0.54-2.56)
  Hispanic 251 7 2.8% 1.33 (0.54-3.25) 1.66 (0.69-4.00)
  Other 423 3 0.7% 0.33 (0.10-1.10) 0.48 (0.15-1.53)
Smoking 0.02 0.03
  Never 2027 53 2.6% Reference Reference
  Past 528 11 2.1% 0.74 (0.33-1.66) 0.76 (0.34-1.71)
  Current 778 7 0.9% 0.35 (0.14-0.84) 0.34 (0.14-0.83)
  Unknown 708 10 1.4% 0.51 (0.24-1.08) 0.62 (0.29-1.33)
Uveitis Category <0.01 <0.01
  Posterior Uveitis 2512 69 2.7% Reference Reference
  Panuveitis 1529 12 0.8% 0.29 (0.15-0.56) 0.26 (0.14-0.51)
Posterior/Panuveitis
Subtype b
<0.01 <0.01
  Undifferentiated
  Panuveitis
1159 11 0.9% Reference Reference
  Multifocal Choroiditis
  with Panuveitis
615 28 4.6% 4.55 (2.04-
10.14)
4.27 (1.94-9.39)
  Multiple Evanescent
  White Dot Syndrome
21 3 14.3% 18.58 (4.60-
75.11)
26.98 (6.25-116.40)
  Birdshot
  Retinochoroiditis
397 4 1.0% 0.99 (0.31-3.19) 1.19 (0.34-4.18)
  Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada
  Syndrome
320 1 0.3% 0.30 (0.04-2.35) 0.22 (0.03-1.73)
  Retinal Vasculitis 727 6 0.8% 0.78 (0.23-2.63) 0.95 (0.28-3.15)
  Punctate Inner
  Choroiditis
17 2 11.8% 15.03 (5.05-
44.79)
15.90 (5.11-49.43)
  Serpiginous Choroiditis 148 7 4.7% 5.27 (1.82-
15.25)
5.69 (1.93-16.82)
  Otherc 637 19 3.0% 2.39 (0.98-5.80) 2.43 (1.02-5.81)
Bilateral Uveitis 0.12 0.15
  No 389 13 3.3% Reference Reference
  Yes 3652 68 1.9% 0.55 (0.29-1.03) 0.58 (0.31-1.09)
Visual Acuity <0.01 <0.01
  20/40 or better 1695 17 1.0% Reference Reference
  >20/40 to <20/200 1429 35 2.4% 3.25 (1.60-6.60) 3.24 (1.69-6.23)
  20/200 or worse 907 29 3.2% 3.88 (1.87-8.05) 4.06 (2.06-7.99)
  Missing 10 0 0.0% n/a n/a
a

Adjusted by race, smoking, uveitis category, and visual acuity

b

Posterior/panuveitis subtype was not adjusted by uveitis category as they are different ways of considering the same variable.

c

The “other” designation includes several conditions too infrequent to analyze separately: Sympathetic Ophthalmia, acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE), neuroretinitis, diffuse retinochoroiditis, focal retinochoroiditis, acute retinal necrosis syndrome, Eales' Disease, unspecified inflammatory chorioretinal scars, sarcoidosis, and necrotizing retinitis.