Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Study Population by Self-Reported Glaucoma Status

	Self-identified Glaucoma (n=11,616)					Self-identified Glaucoma and Ophthalmic Beta-Blocker Medications (n=8,871)
	No Glaucoma (n= 9068)		Glaucoma (n= 2548)			No Glaucoma (n= 8344)		Glaucoma (n= 527)

Variable^a	Mean	SEM^b	Mean	SEM^b	p value^c	Mean	SEM^b	Mean	SEM^b	p value^c
AGE	61	0.07	63.5	0.14	<.0001	61.18	0.08	65.00	0.31	<.0001
NSES	−0.90	0.01	−0.98	0.02	<.0001	−0.90	0.01	−0.85	0.05	<.0001
BMI	31.14	0.07	31.00	0.13	<.0001	31.24	0.07	30.60	0.27	<.0001

	n	%	n	%	p value^c	N	%	n	%	p value^c

HTN
yes	5139	56.67	1545	60.6	0.0003	4857	58.21	338	64.1	0.0074
no	3929	43.33	1003	39.4		3487	41.79	189	35.9
DM
yes	2043	22.53	789	31.0	<.0001	1975	23.67	143	27.1	0.070
No	7025	77.47	1759	69.0		6369	76.33	384	72.9

Age: in years, NSES = neighborhood socioeconomic status, BMI = body mass index, HTN = hypertension, DM = diabetes status.

SEM = Standard Error of the Mean.

The p values were obtained from two-sample t-test for continuous variables and from Chi-squared test for categorical variables.