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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2010 Feb 16;117(6):1220–1227. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.10.027

Table 2.

Population analysis

Group Eyes number Patients number Age (years)* Central corneal thickness (μm)** Descemet's membrane thickness (μm)***
Young normal (Y) 20 13 29 ± 6 [19–44] 551 ± 26 [500–592] 10 ± 3 [6–16]
Elderly normal (E) 20 15 74 ± 8 [60–86] 537 ± 35 [494–594] 16 ± 2 [13–20]
Fuchs' dystrophy (F) 20 12 69 ± 10 [56–88] 632 ± 64 [529–765] 34 ± 11 [17–55]
*

P-value <0.001; Post-hoc comparison results Y < E and F

**

P-value <0.001; Post-hoc comparison results Y and E < F

***

P-value <0.001; Post-hoc comparison results Y < E < F

Range of values