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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: The transcriptome of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with clinical subtypes of late age-related macular degeneration

 

Patients with GA

(n = 19)

Patients with nAMD

(n = 38)

Patients with PCV

(n = 19)

Healthy controls

(n = 20)

P-value

Age, years, mean (SD)

80.4 (8.3)

78.3 (7.8)

71.9 (7.8)

71.7 (8.9)

0.001

Females, n (%)

8 (42)

17 (45)

13 (68)

14 (70)

0.11

Smoking status, n (%)

    

0.50

 Active

5 (26)

10 (26)

7 (37)

3 (15)

 

 Ex-smoker

10 (53)

7 (18)

3 (16)

8 (40)

 

 Never smoker

4 (21)

21 (56)

9 (47)

9 (45)

 

Alcohol consumption, units, median (IQR)

3 (2 to 10)

7 (1 to 10)

4 (1 to 13)

5 (1 to 8)

0.96

Body mass index, mean (SD)

26.5 (6.7)

25.3 (4.4)

25.2 (3.1)

24.7 (3.1)

0.68

Physically active, n (%)

11 (58)

21 (55)

10 (53)

12 (60)

0.97

  1. Abbreviations: GA Geographic atrophy, IQR Interquartile range, nAMD Neovascular age-related macular degeneration, PCV Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, SD Standard deviation