Table 1 of Mossbock, Mol Vis 2006; 12:356-359.


Table 1.

Demographic data of patients and controls. Descriptive statistics of POAG patients, PEXG patients, and control subjects including prevalence of arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, history of myocardial infarction, and history of stroke are presented. The gender and history data are presented as counts with percentages in parentheses. The cases were compared to the controls using the χ2 test. The asterisk indicates a p<0.05 for the comparison to controls.

                         Patients     Patients     Control
     Parameter          with POAG    with PEXG     subjects
---------------------   ----------   ----------   ----------
Number of patients      204          138          211

Age (years)
  Mean±SD                73.1±10.3   75.7± 7.3      73.1± 9.7
  Range                  37.1-90.3   50.3-91.6     37.4-90.3

Gender (Female)         129 (63.2)   84 (60.9)    131 (62.1)

Arterial hypertension   120 (58.8)   80 (60.0)    110 (52.1)

Diabetes mellitus        42 (20.6)   18 (13.0)*    46 (21.8)

History of myocardial    22 (10.8)    7 ( 5.1)     12 ( 5.7)
infarction

History of stroke        20 ( 9.8)   14 (10.1)     12 ( 5.7)

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