Table 1.

Changing trends in demographics of cataract patients at the Farabi Eye Hospital, Iran: 2003 vs. 2006 (population framework)

Patient characteristics	2003	2006	P-value*
Age (years)
Mean	68.5	68.5	0.99
SD	9.1	9.7	0.02
<60 or >80 (%)	28.0	32.3	0.05
Sex (% female)	50.7	52.4	0.28
Systemic conditions (%)
DM	20.3	22.2	0.72
Others: HTN, HLP or IHD	37.3	49.4	0.01
Myopic patients (%)	13.9	19.3	<0.01

SD: Standard deviation, DM: Diabetes mellitus; HTN: Hypertension, HLP: Hyperlipidemia; IHD: Ischemic heart disease,

^*Independent samples t test and Levene’s test for equality of variances were used to compare the mean and SD of age between the two phases. For other variables, Chi-square significance is presented. P<0.05 is statistically significant