Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants with early POAG, moderate to severe POAG, and healthy controls

Variables	Early POAG patients (n = 30)	Moderate to Severe POAG (n = 36)	Control group (n = 35)
Age(years)	36 ± 5.3	43 ± 8.3	25 ± 5.6
Gender(male/female)	17/13	24/12	16/19
Spherical eauivalent(D)	−2.26 ± 0.98	−1.86 ± 0.54	−1.26 ± 0.51
BCVA (logMAR, mean ± SD)	0.87 ± 0.18*	0.85 ± 0.21*	0.92 ± 0.13
IOP (mmHg, mean ± SD)	16.2 ± 3.8	17.4 ± 4.3*	15.7 ± 2.6
Cup-to-Disc Ratio	0.53 ± 0.15*	0.82 ± 0.14*	0.31 ± 0.14

Compared with the control group, * P < 0.05