THE GLAUCOMA LASER TRIAL (GLT) .5. SUBGROUP DIFFERENCES AT ENROLLMENT

Authors
MEINERT C STERNBERG A AMENDLIBERCCI D DODGE J GERCZAK C HAYNES V ISAACSON M LEVINE C MAGUIRE M MEINERT J TONASCIA J TONASCIA S WETZEL D HAWKINS B BONDS B CANNER J CONNOR K DICKERSIN K GUNTHER G THOMAS B TU N XU C SPAETH G KATZ LJ BECKERSHOFF C DEPIANO D SLAGLE S BARONE L GROSS P JACKSON M MORGANSTERN S SAMMARTINO M STRONG C WILENSKY J FROHLICHSTEIN D BECKMAN H CRABTREE J CZEDIK C SUNDERMEYER S KURINIJ N DUDLEY P SURAN A KRUG J CHIAVELLI M BERRY I EVANS C JOYNER M KITTAY R MELANSON A STOUT K WAY R EPSTEIN D BERSON F LATINA M MELAMED S JOHNSON E LINDERMEYER A MCGEE R PIVABOWE D SMITH TJ WILENSKY J TESSLER H FROHLICHSTEIN D ANDERSON J JEDNOCK N PETERSON R NAIL C MILLMAN K SIEGEL H SPIGELMAN V SPRINCZ M BECKMAN H CYRLIN M CZEDIK C RITCH R PODOLSKY M STEINBERGER D STOCK L ABDULAZIM J JOHNSON M KRANTZ J SWEENEY V CUNNINGHAM J MARANAN L TERRERO A THEERTHAM M SPAETH G KATZ LJ BECKERSHOFF C DEPIANO D MOLINEAUX J NICHOLS J PETRAKIS P SLAGLE J CAPRIOLI J SIMMONS S STRANG S CAPONE M SAMMARTINO M SANDY R WILSON R WITTKOWSKI D VELATHOMAS MA HARBIN T LEEF D GOMEZ S GEMMILL M GILMAN J MOORE K SWORDS R WRIGHT J CAMPBELL D CARLTON S FRANK MK LASALLE J MAIO M NICHOLAS P SNIPES C WEBER P KAPETANSKY F MCKINNEY K CLARK M MOORE D SIMMONS L JONES S RADIUS R KLEWIN K SOPA J GUNDERSEN B RICHIE M WIPPLINGER W BAUER D LANGE C BENCE D HELT P KAVANAGH J WOLF C
Citation
C. Meinert et al., THE GLAUCOMA LASER TRIAL (GLT) .5. SUBGROUP DIFFERENCES AT ENROLLMENT, Ophthalmic surgery, 24(4), 1993, pp. 232-241
Citations number
33
Journal title
Ophthalmic surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
0022023X
Volume
24
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
232 - 241
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-023X(1993)24:4<232:TGLT(.>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Data collected at enrollment on the 271 patients (542 eyes) who partic ipated in the Glaucoma Laser Trial (GLT) were analyzed for subgroup di fferences. The subgrouping variables included four patient characteris tics (race, sex, age, and history of a vascular disease) and one ocula r characteristic (myopia). The strongest differences observed were bet ween blacks and whites. As compared with the eyes of the white patient s, those of the black patients had lower mean decibels per test locati on in the visual field (P < .001), greater mean defect (P < .001), num ber of abnormal test locations (P < .001), and corrected loss variance (P = .009), as well as greater cup depth (P < .001), and larger mean horizontal (P = .002) and vertical (P < .001) cup/disc ratios.