Atrial Fibrillation and Coronary Artery Disease as Risk Factors of Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Nationwide Population-Based Study

Table 3

Crude and adjusted hazard ratios for developing retinal artery occlusion among patients with atrial fibrillation and the control group during the ten-year follow-up ( = 48,628).

Development of RAO	Total		Patients with AF		Control group
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Nine-year follow-up period
Yes	27	0.05	18	0.18	9	0.02
No	48,601	99.95	9,738	99.82	38,863	99.98
Crude HR (95% CI)	—		7.98 (3.59–17.77)		1.00
Adjusted^a HR (95% CI)	—		8.32 (3.70–18.32)		1.00

Adjustments were made for sex and age.