Table 4.

Pearson correlation coefficients between patient characteristics and final visual outcome

Characteristics	Correlation with BCVA outcome
	r	Evaluated cases	Multivariate p-value
Male gender	0.161	197	0.024
Age at disease onset	−0.086	197	0.225
Caucasian ethnicity	−0.045	197	0.526
Recent steroid use	0.042	197	0.551
Disease duration	−0.105	197	0.143
Baseline BCVA	0.543	197	<0.001
Presence of PCRD	−0.297	195	<0.001
Presence of multifocal hot spots	0.023	195	0.023
Mean number of hot spots	−0.036	152	0.656
Location of multifocal hot spots	−0.036	154	0.657
Presence of diffuse leakage	−0.163	195	0.023
Presence of DARA	−0.265	197	<0.001
Surface of DARA	−0.343	197	<0.001
Location of DARA	0.400	197	<0.001
DARA involving the fovea	−0.386	197	<0.001
DARA within 1 DD of the fovea, but sparing the fovea	0.128	197	0.072
DARA more than 1 DD outside the fovea	0.309	197	<0.001
Mean number of recurrences	−0.063	176	0.409

Notes: r, correlation coefficient. Bold font indicates data were considered statistically significant.

Abbreviations: BCVA, best-corrected visual acuity; DARA, diffuse atrophic retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) alterations; DD, optic disc diameter; PCRD, posterior cystoid retinal degeneration.