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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2016 Oct 11;47(11):2862–2864. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.014998

Table 2.

Association between retinopathy and quantitative retinal microvascular measures with white matter hyperintensities

Variable Model 1 OR (95% CI) P Model 2 OR (95% CI) P Model 3 OR (95% CI) P

Retinopathy
R0 Reference Reference NR
R1 1.14 (0.89, 1.46) 0.3 1.03 (0.79, 1.33) 0.9
R2 5.64 (2.64, 12.09) <0.001 4.35 (1.98, 9.56) <0.001
Trend 0.001 0.04
Arteriolar diameter 0.99 (0.97, 1.00) 0.02 0.98 (0.97, 0.99) 0.01 0.98 (0.97, 0.99) 0.002
Number of arterioles 0.91 (0.86, 0.967) 0.002 0.92 (0.87, 0.98) 0.006 0.92 (0.87, 0.98) 0.03
Number of symmetrical arteriolar bifurcations 0.90 (0.83, 0.98) 0.02 0.88 (0.81, 0.97) 0.007 0.88 (0.80, 0.96) 0.006
Arteriolar tortuosity 0.97 (0.92, 1.03) 0.4 0.96 (0.90, 1.02) 0.2 0.96 (0.90, 1.02) 0.2
Log arteriolar optimality deviation 0.98 (0.88, 1.09) 0.7 1.00 (0.90, 1.12) >0.9 1.01 (0.90, 1.12) >0.9
Venular diameter 0.99 (0.99, 1.01) 0.9 1.00 (0.99, 1.01) 0.6 1.00 (0.99, 1.01) 0.6
Number of venules 0.94 (0.89, 0.99) 0.03 0.96 (0.90, 1.01) 0.1 0.96 (0.90, 1.01) 0.1
Venular tortuosity 1.14 (1.04, 1.23) 0.003 1.11 (1.01, 1.21) 0.02 1.11 (1.02, 1.21) 0.02
Arteriovenous ratio 0.40 (0.15, 1.04) 0.06 0.32 (0.12, 0.86) 0.02 0.31 (0.12, 0.84) 0.02

Models and abbreviations as for table 1.