Relation of early age related maculopathy characteristics to late age related maculopathy in the Hisayama study
| Characteristic | Non-involved eye of people with unilateral late ARM | Right eye of people with neither eye involved with late ARM | p Value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case | % | Case | % | ||||||
| Soft distinct drusen present | 1 | 9.1 | 91 | 6.1 | 0.7 | ||||
| Hyper/hypopigmentation present | 4 | 36.3 | 25 | 1.7 | <0.001 | ||||
| Early ARM present | 5 | 45.5 | 148 | 10.1 | <0.001 | ||||