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. 2014 Nov 7;29(2):272–279. doi: 10.1038/eye.2014.260

Table 3. Association of smoking and SBP with OCT areas and volumes.

  Area CC Area PR Volume CC Volume PR RA
Smoking status, mean±SD
 Nonsmokers (n=158) 0.2117±0.0517 0.1582±0.0397 0.0152±0.0056 0.0075±0.0025 0.5234±0.1301
 Smokers (n=50) 0.1950±0.0862 0.1460±0.0614 0.0139±0.0094 0.0069±0.0035 0.3000±0.1372
           
P-valuea 0.87 0.87 0.91 0.89 0.24
           
Years smoked
 ≤5 (n=12) 0.0667±0.0596 0.0042±0.0040 0.0041±0.0038 0.0000±0.0000 0.0125±0.0120
 6–19 (n=13) 0.4269±0.3052 0.1885±0.1488 0.0403±0.0347 0.0123±0.0110 0.1077±0.0995
 ≥20 (n=22) 0.1545±0.0515 0.2159±0.1041 0.0055±0.0019 0.0083±0.0042 0.4705±0.2699
           
P-valuea 0.32 0.06 0.59 0.08 0.15
           
SBP, mm Hg
 <120 (n=68) 0.0772±0.0258 0.0985±0.0396 0.0029±0.0010 0.0040±0.0017 0.3059±0.1389
 120–139 (n=66) 0.2250±0.0738 0.1568±0.0626 0.0136±0.0063 0.0082±0.0047 0.3614±0.1569
 ≥140 (n=31) 0.3968±0.1913 0.2839±0.1195 0.0370±0.0244 0.0128±0.0067 0.9565±0.3784
           
P-valuea 0.05 0.29 0.09 0.34 0.27
           
Spearman correlation with continuous years smoked, adjusted for age 0.23, P=0.12 0.29, P=0.05 0.20, P=0.17 0.40, P=0.005 0.24, P=0.10
           
Spearman correlation with continuous SBP 0.06, P=0.42 0.18, P=0.01 0.08, P=0.26 0.18, P=0.02 0.15, P=0.05

Abbreviations: CC, central circle; OCT, optical coherence tomography; PR, perifoveal ring; RA, retinal pigment epithelium atrophy; SBP, systolic blood pressure.

a

Generalized estimating equations (GEE).