Comparison of Newly Diagnosed Ocular Hypertension and Open-Angle Glaucoma: Ocular Variables, Risk Factors, and Disease Severity
Table 5
Summary of medical history, (%).
Medical history (past or current)
OAG
OH
Odds ratio
-valuea
(95% CI)
Vascular dysfunction
128 (43.8)
37 (32.7)
1.6 (1.0, 2.5)
0.042
Hypercholestero- lemia
93 (31.8)
31 (27.4)
1.2 (0.8, 2.0)
0.387
Smoking
86 (29.5)
53 (46.9)
0.5 (0.3, 0.7)
0.001
Migraine
37 (12.7)
16 (14.2)
0.9 (0.5, 1.7)
0.690
Thyroid disease
34 (11.6)
15 (13.3)
0.9 (0.4, 1.7)
0.652
Diabetes mellitus
32 (11.0)
17 (15.0)
0.7 (0.4, 1.3)
0.258
Pseudoexfoliation syndrome
19 (6.5)
3 (2.7)
2.6 (0.7, 8.8)
0.148
Raynaud’s disease
15 (5.1)
5 (4.4)
1.2 (0.4, 3.3)
0.767
Pigment dispersion syndrome
12 (4.1)
6 (5.3)
0.8 (0.3, 2.1)
0.599
Sleep apnea
9 (3.1)
7 (6.2)
0.5 (0.2, 1.3)
0.149
Abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; = number of subjects; OAG = open-angle glaucoma; OH = ocular hypertension.
aSignificance of differences between the OAG and OH groups was tested using the chi-square test; Fisher’s exact test was used when the expected marginal size was <5.