Table 3.
Distribution of diagnoses by race
| Diagnosis | African American n (%) |
Caucasian n (%) |
P-value* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viral | |||
| Herpetic anterior uveitis | 2 (1.5) | 32 (10.8) | <0.001 |
| Acute retinal necrosis | 5 (3.7) | 8 (2.7) | 0.553 |
| CMV uveitis | 1 (0.7) | 3 (1.0) | 1.000 |
| Herpetic panuveitis | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1.000 |
| Sarcoidosis | 23 (17.2) | 9 (3.0) | <0.001 |
| Anterior uveitis, undifferentiated | 40 (29.9) | 63 (21.2) | 0.067 |
| Trauma | 22 (16.4) | 35 (11.8) | 0.219 |
| Post-procedural | 14 (10.4) | 27 (9.1) | 0.723 |
| Anterior uveitis HLA-B27 | 8 (6.0) | 22 (7.4) | 0.686 |
| Others | 2 (1.5) | 15 (5.1) | 0.108 |
| Intermediate uveitis | 3 (2.2) | 14 (4.7) | 0.291 |
| Panuveitis, undifferentiated | 7 (5.2) | 13 (4.4) | 0.805 |
| Infectious (bacterial, fungal, parasitic) | |||
| Toxoplasma | 1 (0.7) | 10 (3.4) | 0.185 |
| Fungal | 0 (0.0) | 4 (1.3) | 0.315 |
| Syphilis | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1.000 |
| Tuberculosis | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1.000 |
| Posterior uveitis, undifferentiated | 2 (1.5) | 6 (2.0) | 1.000 |
| White dot syndrome | |||
| Multifocal choroiditis | 3 (2.2) | 5 (1.7) | 0.708 |
| Birdshot | 0 (0.0) | 5 (1.7) | 0.330 |
| APMPPE | 0 (0.0) | 4 (1.3) | 0.315 |
| Serpiginous | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.0) | 0.556 |
| MEWDS | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.7) | 1.000 |
| Seronegative SpA | |||
| Ankylosing spondylitis | 0 (0.0) | 5 (1.7) | 0.330 |
| Crohn’s disease | 0 (0.0) | 4 (1.3) | 0.315 |
| Reactive arthritis | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1.000 |
| Ulcerative colitis | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1.000 |
| Psoriatic arthritis | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1.000 |
| Collagen vascular disease | |||
| Granulomatosis with polyangiitis | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1.000 |
| Polyarteritis nodosa | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1.000 |
| Fuch’s iridocyclitis | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1.000 |
| Eales disease | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0.311 |
| Total | 134 (100.0) | 297 (100.0) | <0.001† |
Notes:
*
Fisher’s exact test on 2×2 table, eg, African American vs Caucasian compared on sarcoidosis vs all other diagnoses.
†
Fisher’s exact test applied to entire table, using Monte Carlo sampling.
Abbreviations: APMPPE, acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy; CMV, cytomegaovirus; HLA, human leukocyte antigen; MEWDS, multiple evanescent white dot syndrome; seronegative SpA, seronegative spondyloarthropathy.