Outer Retinal Layers’ Thickness Changes in relation to Age and Choroidal Thickness in Normal Eyes

Table 3

Correlation of the 9 ETDRS subfields mean thickness of RPE-OS, ONL-IS, and CT with age, gender, refraction, axial length, and CT.

	Correlation with age		Correlation with gender		Correlation with CT		Correlation with refraction		Correlation with axial length
	r	value	r	value	r	value	r	value	r	value
RPE-OS
Central RPE-OS	−0.345	<0.001	−0.049	0.590	0.273	0.002	0.092	0.306	0.027	0.767
Inner ring
Superior	−0.253	0.004	−0.119	0.186	0.182	0.042	0.069	0.446	−0.025	0.779
Inferior	−0.280	0.002	−0.100	0.268	0.227	0.011	−0.034	0.710	0.102	0.256
Nasal	−0.287	0.001	−0.062	0.492	0.339	<0.001	0.109	0.224	−0.047	0.601
Temporal	−0.260	0.003	−0.058	0.523	0.283	0.001	0.091	0.310	<0.001	0.997
Outer ring
Superior	−0.264	0.003	−0.107	0.236	0.175	0.051	0.103	0.252	0.010	0.915
Inferior	−0.396	<0.001	−0.040	0.655	0.352	0.001	0.053	0.555	0.076	0.397
Nasal	−0.366	<0.001	−0.075	0.407	0.479	<0.001	0.164	0.068	−0.087	0.336
Temporal	−0.311	<0.001	−0.030	0.743	0.325	<0.001	0.071	0.429	0.010	0.915
ONL-IS
Central ONL-IS	0.08	0.376	0.019	0.833	−0.075	0.409	0.136	0.130	−0.124	0.167
Inner ring
Superior	0.062	0.495	−0.173	0.054	−0.024	0.791	−0.012	0.893	−0.001	0.994
Inferior	0.143	0.111	−0.185	0.039	−0.047	0.599	0.005	0.953	0.017	0.853
Nasal	−0.046	0.614	−0.132	0.142	0.114	0.207	0.094	0.297	0.123	0.171
Temporal	0.294	0.001	−0.095	0.292	−0.237	0.008	−0.037	0.681	−0.047	0.604
Outer ring
Superior	0.073	0.417	−0.099	0.271	−0.039	0.665	0.027	0.766	−0.016	0.861
Inferior	0.164	0.068	−0.144	0.109	−0.124	0.168	−0.032	0.725	0.066	0.463
Nasal	0.057	0.530	−0.082	0.361	−0.114	0.206	0.004	0.962	−0.030	0.739
Temporal	0.222	0.013	−0.014	0.120	−0.135	0.133	−0.071	0.433	−0.014	0.880
CT
Central CT	−0.725	<0.001	−0.013	0.255	—	—	0.166	0.064	−0.015	0.868
Inner ring
Superior	−0.727	<0.001	−0.101	0.260	0.865	<0.001	−0.003	0.976	0.054	0.547
Inferior	−0.669	<0.001	−0.120	0.183	0.837	<0.001	0.015	0.871	0.057	0.528
Nasal	−0.672	<0.001	−0.119	0.186	0.784	<0.001	−0.030	0.744	0.017	0.853
Temporal	−0.683	<0.001	−0.110	0.224	0.781	<0.001	−0.018	0.840	−0.024	0.790
Outer ring
Superior	−0.729	<0.001	−0.072	0.424	0.817	<0.001	−0.003	0.976	0.065	0.470
Inferior	−0.651	<0.001	−0.142	0.114	0.772	<0.001	0.045	0.621	0.075	0.403
Nasal	−0.566	<0.001	−0.177	0.048	0.700	<0.001	0.000	0.998	0.054	0.549
Temporal	−0.658	<0.001	−0.094	0.296	0.704	<0.001	0.020	0.822	−0.047	0.601

CT: choroidal thickness. Bold numbers refer to statistically significant values.