Structure/Function relationship and retinal ganglion cells counts to discriminate glaucomatous damages

BMC Ophthalmology

Table 3 Correlation strength (Pearson coefficient) between considered parameters

	Age	MD	PSD	VFI	RNFL average	RNFL av. sup.	RNFL av. inf.	RNFL av. temp.	GCC av. Total	GCC av. sup.	GCC av. inf.	RGC count	RGCcount GCC
Age	1.00
MD	−0.09*	1.00
PSD	0.16*	−0.79	1.00
VFI	−0.09*	0.98	−0.76	1.00
RNFL av.	−0.19*	0.60	−0.64	0.59	1.00
RNFL av. sup.	−0.20*	0.60	−0.63	0.58	0.92	1.00
RNFL av. inf.	−0.15*	0.54	−0.58	0.53	0.95	0.75	1.00
RNFL av. temp.	−0.19*	0.55	−0.58	0.51	0.81	0.82	0.71	1.00
GCC av. Total	−0.20*	0.60	−0.62	0.58	0.85	0.86	0.75	0.82	1.00
GCC av. sup.	−0.21*	0.57	−0.59	0.55	0.78	0.85	0.63	0.78	0.96	1.00
GCC av. inf.	−0.18*	0.58	−0.60	0.57	0.87	0.80	0.81	0.80	0.97	0.86	1.00
RGCcount	−0.40	0.88	−0.81	0.82	0.81	0.79	0.74	0.65	0.76	0.73	0.75	1.00
RGC count GCC	−0.40	0.85	−0.80	0.80	0.74	0.75	0.65	0.74	0.78	0.76	0.75	0.96	1.00
FLV	0.19*	−0.67	0.70	−0.66	−0.80	−0.79	−0.71	−0.76	−0.78	−0.76	−0.74	−0.79	−0.79
GLV	0.21*	−0.66	0.67	−0.64	−0.83	−0.85	−0.72	−0.83	−0.97	−0.94	−0.92	−0.81	−0.82

(*) Indicates that the correlation between those two parameters is not statistically significant (p > 0.01). In all the other cases without (*), p < 0.01

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