Table 3. Associations between race by AMD status and complement levels.
| Complement | Healthy controls |
AMD |
p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFR (n=52) | EUR (n=81) | AFR (n=7) | EUR (n=82)* | ||
| C3a |
96.1 (29.3) |
94.8 (37.3) |
115.7 (55.0) |
113.6 (60.0) |
0.282 |
| C5a |
112.3 (24.6) |
98.1 (21.8) |
92.3 (26.1) |
92.4 (24.3) |
0.003 |
| Bb |
93.5 (35.7) |
95.4 (46.6) |
94.1 (49.1) |
119.8 (73.4) |
0.02 |
| Factor H | 95.9 (58.9) | 99.9 (47.5) | 135.9 (73.1) | 102.6 (62.5) | 0.422 |
*One of the Caucasian patients is missing all complement information. p values are reported for the global test that at least one of the groups is different.