Novel Method for Automated Analysis of Retinal Images: Results in Subjects with Hypertensive Retinopathy and CADASIL

Table 1

Characteristics of the study subjects.

	Age	Gender (F)	Smoking	Dyslipidemia	Hypertension	Diabetes
Hypertensive retinopathy	63 ± 15	7/16	2/16	3/16	16/16	3/16
Controls	62 ± 14	7/16	5/16	None	None	None
()	0.85	0.99	0.39	0.23	0.0001	0.23
CADASIL	45 ± 8	7/11	2/11	2/11	1/11	1/11
Controls	44 ± 8	7/11	3/11	1/11	None	None
()	0.77	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.99

Age is expressed as mean ± SD. All the other variables are expressed as ratio /total.
Dyslipidemia was defined as total cholesterol ≥200 mg/dL or LDL ≥100 mg/dL or statin treatment. Hypertension was defined as elevated blood pressure (ambulatory systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg) or current antihypertensive drug therapy. Diabetes was defined as fasting glucose levels ≥126 mg/dL on two different test occasions or current use of hypoglycemic agents.
Wilcoxon rank sum test (age) or Chi-squared test (all the other variables).