Research Article

Choroidal Thickness in Relation to Bone Mineral Density with Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography

Table 2

The choroidal thickness of nine sectors of the ETDRS grid in the low BMD compared with the controls.

Choroidal thicknessLow BMD (n = 396)
Mean (SD)
Control (n = 432)
Mean (SD)
value

Center, μm237.24 (72.87)249.01 (68.23)0.027
Inner superior, μm240.55 (73.98)250.71 (71.08)0.062
Inner nasal, μm223.99 (74.04)237.63 (71.41)0.013
Inner inferior, μm234.33 (78.35)247.86 (73.93)0.018
Inner temporal, μm227.87 (67.02)241.77 (63.30)0.005
Outer superior, μm226.37 (68.07)238.66 (65.77)0.015
Outer nasal, μm187.65 (72.96)201.87 (71.72)0.009
Outer inferior, μm217.67 (72.75)232.15 (68.25)0.006
Outer temporal, μm208.26 (62.38)226.08 (59.41)<0.001
Average thickness, μm215.50 (64.55)229.73 (60.61)0.003