The relationship between T-Score (Cutoff, −1.0) for femoral BMD and the occurrence of age-related macular degeneration in women and men.
AMD
REGRESSION, AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION
AMD-0: group without AMD; AMD-1: group with AMD.AMD, age-related macular degeneration; CI, confidence interval.Femoral BMD was a significant predictor of AMD in men based on univariate logistic regression models. A one-unit increase in femoral BMD was associated with a 98% decrease in the risk of being in the AMD-1 group (95% CI = <0.01; 0,80; p = 0.043), whereas a one-unit increase in the femur T-score was associated with a 42% risk reduction (95% CI = 0.34; 0.96; p = 0.041)). For women only age was a significant predictor of AMD, the odds for AMD were growing with age, one-year growth was increasing odds for AMD by 8% (95% CI = 1.02; 1.15; p = 0.012). Femoral BMD as well as femur T-score were not significantly associated with occurrence of AMD in women (p = 0.352 in both cases), (