Optical Coherence Tomography Biomarkers of the Outer Blood—Retina Barrier in Patients with Diabetic Macular Oedema

Table 3

Post hoc analysis for ETDRS quadrants with a statistically significant difference after the Kruskal-Wallis test.

RPE thickness	Control vs. NPDR-DMO	Control vs. PDR-DMO	NPDR-DMO vs. PDR-DMO
Central subfield	0.039	0.00008	0.017
Central minimum	<0.00001	<0.00001	0.447
Central maximum	<0.00001	<0.00001	0.741
Nasal inner quadrant	0.936	0.00044	0.0009
Superior inner quadrant	0.322	<0.00001	0.022
Inferior inner quadrant	0.660	0.00058	0.009
Nasal outer quadrant	0.841	0.0110	0.019
Superior outer quadrant	0.208	0.0028	0.101
Internal quadrant	0.976	0.0014	0.003

The italicized values indicate a statistically significant difference between groups. adjusted Bonferroni. RPE: retinal pigment epithelium; NPDR-DMO: nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy-diabetic macular oedema; PDR-DMO: proliferative diabetic retinopathy-diabetic macular oedema.