Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection

Table 1 Characteristics of OID cases and control subjects

From: Statin use and ocular inflammatory disease risk

	OID cases	Control subjects	p value
Number of subjects	92	920
Mean age (year)s	58.2	58.1	0.97^a
Ethnicity			0.0018^b
White	48 (52.2)	378 (41.1)
African-American	30 (32.6)	207 (22.5)
Other	0 (0)	6 (0.6)
Unknown	14 (15.2)	329 (35.8)
Medical characteristics
Diabetes	24 (26.1)	95 (10.3)	<0.0001^b
Lipid metabolism disorders	7 (7.6)	53 (5.8)	0.47^b
Hypertension	32 (34.8)	185 (20.1)	0.0011^b
Cardiovascular disease	12 (13.0)	141 (15.3)	0.56^b
Cerebrovascular disease	2 (2.2)	47 (5.1)	0.21^b
Arterial disease	3 (3.3)	32 (3.5)	0.91^b

Values are expressed as number (percentage) of individuals unless otherwise indicated. OID, ocular inflammatory disease. ^aPaired t test; ^bMcNemar's test.

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