Table 1.

Patient characteristics

Parameter	Control (48 eyes)	Moderate myopia (28 eyes)	High myopia (29 eyes)	P value
Age, years	67.0 ± 6.7	59.9 ± 10.5	54.5 ± 7.8	< 0.001*
Sex, male/female	17/31	12/16	12/17	0.778
Eye laterality, right/left	30/18	14/14	19/10	0.436
AL, mm	23.01 ± 0.60	25.13 ± 0.43	28.14 ± 1.52	< 0.001*
Corneal power, diopters	44.46 ± 1.14	43.07 ± 1.52	42.49 ± 2.70	< 0.001*
ACD, mm	2.94 ± 0.30	3.40 ± 0.36	3.59 ± 0.30	< 0.001*
IOP, mm Hg	13.1 ± 2.9	13.2 ± 2.8	14.2 ± 2.7	0.070
Cortical opacification, yes/no	17/31	9/19	4/25	0.112
Nuclear opacification, yes/no	41/7	24/4	25/4	> 0.999
Posterior subcapsular opacification, yes/no	8/40	6/22	4/25	0.757

*Statistically significant (P < .05)

AL, axial length; ACD, anterior chamber depth; IOP, intraocular pressure