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Table 1 Patient demographics including sex, race, and systemic disease associations

From: Analyzing the demographics of patients with uveitis in an indigent, urban population

N = 270 patients

No. (%)

 

Sex

  

Female

166 (61.5)

 

Race/Ethnicity

  

African-American

181 (67.0)

 

Caucasian

44 (16.3)

 

Hispanic

26 (9.6)

 

Asian

11 (4.1)

 

Middle-Eastern

7 (2.6)

 

Unknown

1 (0.4)

 

Systemic Disease Associations

184 (68.1)

 

Diabetes Mellitus

68 (25.2)

 

Hypertension

112 (41.5)

 

HIV

7 (2.5)

 

Renal Transplant

2 (0.7)

 

Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (N = 54)

  

Sarcoidosis

14 (25.0)

 

Rheumatoid Arthritis

6 (11.1)

 

Crohn’s Disease

5 (9.3)

 

Mixed Connective Tissue Disease

4 (7.6)

 

Behcet’s Disease

3 (5.6)

 

HLA-B27 Spondyloarthropathy

3 (5.6)

 

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

3 (5.6)

 

Ulcerative Colitis

3 (5.6)

 

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

2 (3.7)

 

Lambert-Eaton Syndrome

1 (1.9)

 

Multiple Sclerosis

1 (1.9)

 

Pemphigoid

1 (1.9)

 

Sjogren Syndrome

1 (1.9)

 

Scleroderma

1 (1.9)

 

Other Autoimmune Disease*

1 (1.9)

 
  1. SLE = systemic lupus erythematosus, HIV = human immunodeficiency virus
  2. *Includes an overlap syndrome of rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome, sarcoidosis, SLE