Table 1 Demographic features and degree of myopia of study patients (n = 714).
| Sex | |
| Male | 238 (33.3%) |
| Female | 476 (66.7%) |
| Age (years) | |
| Mean (SD) | 32.9 (8.3%) |
| Range | 15.4–59.0 |
| Median | 33.0 |
| Spherical equivalent (D) | |
| >−2 to 0 | 53 (7.4%) |
| >−4 to −2 | 189 (26.5%) |
| >−6 to −4 | 225 (31.5%) |
| >−8 to −6 | 137 (19.2%) |
| ⩾−8 | 110 (15.4%) |