Table 1

Inflammatory eye disease patient demographics and comparisons between OSD and Uveitis groups

All (N=200)OSD (N=100)Uveitis (N=100)P value
Age (years)*54 (41–68)58 (43–71)51 (39–63)0.062
Gender0.057
 Male744430
 Female1265670
Ethnicity†0.172
 White1327161
 Black18711
 South Asian451827
 Mixed541
Education0.853
 Nil/technical skills663531
 GCSE/A levels924547
 University422022
Employment0.117
 Full/part/self773245
 Student/unemployed311615
 House-wife/husband231013
 Retired694227
Oral corticosteroid0.124
 No1568373
 Yes441727
Eye drops per day<0.001‡
 None28919
 As required17710
 1–4 times883256
 5–7 times30219
 Up to 2 hourly37316

  • P values are comparing the OSD and Uveitis groups and are from Fisher’s exact tests, unless stated otherwise. Bold p values are significant at p<0.05.

  • *Age was reported to the nearest decade, hence medians and interquartile ranges are estimated assuming an even distribution of ages within each decade. The comparison between groups treated the decade of age as an ordinal variable, and was performed using a Mann-Whitney U test.

  • †UK Census 2011 Classification for ethnicities.

  • ‡P-value from a Mann-Whitney U test, as the factor is ordinal.

  • A Level, Advanced Level; GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education; OSD, ocular surface disease.