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Table 4 Baseline characteristics and treatment outcome measures according to ARMS2 rs10490924 genotypes

From: Association of ARMS2 genotype with response to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

  

Genotype

OR (95% CI)*

P - value

  

TT (34)

TG (35)

GG (11)

Baseline characteristics

Age

67.0 ± 8.7

68.4 ± 8.1

66.7 ± 7.2

–

0.556**

Sex (male/female)

20 (58.8%)/14

20 (57.1%) / 15

8 (72.7%) / 3

–

0.508†

Smoking (ever/never)

12 (35.3%)/20

15 (42.9%) / 20

5 (45.5%) / 6

–

0.933†

Baseline BCVA, letter

53.1 ± 22.0

45.6 ± 20.8

56.8 ± 12.6

–

0.076**

Baseline TFT, μm

427.1 ± 222.1

452.6 ± 195.6

325.8 ± 102.8

–

0.188**

Baseline PED height

307.3 ± 127.4

299.1 ± 142.2

241.0 ± 132.1

 

0.203**

Baseline vascular lesion area, mm2

6.9 ± 5.4

5.5 ± 4.3

3.2 ± 2.9

–

0.067**

Treatment outcome measures (at month 12)

BCVA change from baseline, letter

+0.9 ± 17.7

+9.1 ± 19.5

+5.4 ± 14.3

–

0.338††

 

TFT change from baseline, μm

−36.8 ± 270.7

−113.3 ± 226.7

−110.1 ± 100.0

–

0.212††

≥ 15 letter gain

8 (23.5%)

13 (37.1%)

4 (36.4%)

1.58 (0.78–3.23)

0.208††

Dry status on OCT

14 (41.2%)

15 (42.9%)

5 (45.5%)

1.19 (0.56–2.53)

0.622††

PED regression on OCT

9 (26.4%)

16 (45.7%)

7 (63.6%)

2.96 (1.38–6.36)

0.004††

Polyp regression on ICGA

8 (32.0%)/25

8 (34.8%)/23

3 (42.9%)/7

1.27 (0.85–1.90)

0.215††

Number of injection

5.7 ± 2.1

5.6 ± 1.7

5.7 ± 1.8

–

0.786††

  1. OR Odds ratio, CI Confidence interval, BCVA Best-corrected visual acuity, TFT Total foveal thickness, PED Pigment epithelial detachment, OCT Optical coherence tomography, ICGA Indocyanine green angiography
  2. *odds ratio for G allele under additive genetic model
  3. **Kruskal-Wallis test
  4. †Chi-square test
  5. ††P - value from logistic regression model (categorical outcomes) or linear regression model (continuous outcomes), uncorrected for multiple testing