Aqueous Interleukin-6 Levels Are Superior to Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Predicting Therapeutic Response to Bevacizumab in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of study and control population.

	Control group	Study group	𝑃 value
Age (in years)	72.8±7.0	73.7±8.6	0.2
Sex (female : male)	4 : 26	7 : 23	0.1
Race (African American : Caucasian)	26 : 4	1 : 29	0.001
Aqueous VEGF levels (in picogram)	3.7±1.3	6±3	0.002
Aqueous IL-6 levels (in picogram)	5.1±2.2	17.1±21.3	<0.0001