Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of Age-Related Macular Degeneration patients and controls

Variable	Controls (N=282)	Cases (N=353)	p-value
Afection status no. (%)
No AMD	282
Neovascular AMD		225 (63.7)
Geographic atrophy		57 (16.2)
Mixed AMD		71 (20.1)
Sex no. (%)
Male	126 (44.7)	163 (46.2)	0.707
Female	156 (55.3)	190 (53.82)
Mean age (SD)	75.1 (5.8)	76.74 (5.82)	0.003
Smoking history no. (%)
No. of subjects	278	344	0.134
Never smoked	209 (75.2)	240 (69.8)
Current or former smoker	69 (24.8)	104 (30.2)
HTA no. (%)
No. of subjects	280	348	0.983
no	133 (47.5)	165 (47.4)
yes	147 (52.5)	183 (52.6)
Diabetes mellitus no. (%)
No. of subjects	281	348	0.874
no	241 (85.8)	300 (86.2)
yes	40 (14.23)	48 (13.8)
Atheromatous disease no. (%)
No. of subjects	280	345
no	226 (80.7)	269 (78)
Ischemic cardiopathy	32 (11.4)	44 (13)	0.568
Ischemic stroke	6 (2.1)	12 (3.6)	0.297
Peripheral atherosclerosis	27 (9.6)	33 (9.8)	0.950