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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: Mult Scler. 2021 Jun 14;28(3):393–405. doi: 10.1177/13524585211023343

Table 3:

Correlation between baseline values for retinal layer thicknesses with LME counts, cortical lesions, and brain segmentation values.

pRNFL mRFNL GCIPL INL OPL ONL IS OS AMT
Any LME count −0.26 −0.10 −0.25 −0.30 0.09 −0.32 −0.08 −0.21 −0.30
Nodular count −0.26 −0.10 −0.27 0.16 −0.28 −0.15 −0.50** 0.23 −0.34*
Spread/Fill count −0.14 −0.08 −0.19 −0.35* 0.17 −0.29 0.05 −0.27 −0.30
Spread/fill-infratentorial count −0.04 −0.13 −0.07 −0.13 −0.07 −0.01 −0.10 0.17 −0.13
Spread/fill-gyral count 0.01 −0.01 −0.02 −0.24 0.11 −0.06 0.20 −0.17 −0.02
Spread/fill-sulcal count −0.21 −0.08 −0.25 −0.31 0.17 −0.34* −0.06 −0.28 −0.27
Total CL Volume 0.21 −0.26 −0.45** 0.07 −0.06 −0.05 0.04 0.02 −0.34*
Leukocortical CL count −0.24 −0.15 −0.28 0.11 −0.18 −0.15 −0.22 −0.02 −0.37*
Leukocortical CL volume −0.16 −0.27 −0.41* 0.19 −0.20 −0.01 −0.11 0.09 −0.35*
Intracortical CL count −0.26 −0.16 −0.32 0.11 −0.18 −0.14 −0.10 −0.01 −0.32
Intracortical CL volume −0.24 −0.19 −0.32 0.16 −0.05 −0.01 0.17 −0.02 −0.24
Subpial CL count −0.28 0.01 −0.30 −0.10 −0.03 0.02 0.05 −0.20 −0.19
Subpial CL volume −0.21 −0.09 −0.34* −0.12 0.09 −0.06 0.12 −0.09 −0.21
Hypothalamic CL count 0.21 −0.28 0.07 −0.12 0.08 −0.17 0.11 −0.26 −0.13
Hypothalamic CL volume 0.18 −0.29 −0.03 0.01 0.20 −0.09 0.19 0.06 −0.10
WM volume 0.29 0.11 0.19 −0.22 0.05 −0.11 −0.01 −0.14 0.02
WML volume −0.33 −0.24 −0.33* −0.03 −0.08 0.01 −0.21 0.16 −0.25
Cortical GM volume −0.20 0.18 0.13 0.21 −0.03 −0.01 0.04 0.09 0.17

All correlations adjusted for covariates of age, sex, optic neuritis history, and use of disease modifying therapy. pRNFL: peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer; mRNFL: macular retinal nerve fiber layer; GCIPL: ganglion cell layer + inner plexiform layer; INL: inner nuclear layer; OPL: outer plexiform layer; ONL: outer nuclear layer; IS: inner segment; OS: outer segment; AMT: average macular thickness; CL: cortical lesion: GM: gray matter; WM: white matter; WML: white matter lesion.

*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

p remained <0.05 after Bonferonni correction.