Comparison of choriocapillary flow density between fellow eyes of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Table 2 Univariate analysis of potential correlation factors (Age, gender, BCVA, smoking status, hypertension, DM, AREDS classification, and SFCT) With CFD-1.00, CFD-1.50, and CFD-3.00 as dependent variable

Characteristic	CFD-1.00		CFD-1.50		CFD-3.00
Characteristic	Correlation Coefficient	P value ^a	Correlation Coefficient	P value ^a	Correlation Coefficient	P value ^a
Age	−0.06	0.537	0.01	0.921	−0.05	0.617
Gender	−0.07	0.483	−0.06	0.563	−0.13	0.895
BCVA	−0.01	0.902	0.03	0.750	0.05	0.581
Smoking status	−0.08	0.388	−0.07	0.478	−0.09	0.340
Hypertension	−0.07	0.453	−0.063	0.515	< 0.01	0.974
DM	−0.08	0.428	−0.06	0.519	−0.12	0.221
AREDS classification	−0.30	0.001*	−0.26	0.006*	−0.19	0.049*
SFCT	0.11	0.244	0.10	0.284	0.06	0.520
Fellow eye diagnosis	−0.46	< 0.001*	−0.42	< 0.001*	− 0.32	0.001*

DM Diabetes mellitus, AREDS Age-Related Eye Disease Study, SFCT Subfoveal choroidal thickness, CFD Choriocapillaris flow deficit
*Statistically significant P value. ^a Spearman correlation analysis

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