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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2011 Nov;118(11):2113–2119. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.03.032

Table 2.

Baseline characteristics by eye

Cataract Surgery Nuclear Cortical PSC
% % % %
Total eyes 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Iris color Light 27.3 27.7 28.0 27.6
Other 60.1 59.9 60.0 60.0
Dark 12.6 12.4 12.0 12.4
Refractive error ≤-1.0D 17.2 16.3 17.2 16.6
Other 49.0 49.6 49.3 49.5
≥1.0D 33.9 34.1 33.5 33.9
Nuclear cataract at baseline ≤2 52.8 58.5 54.5 54.1
>2, <4 38.1 41.5 37.1 37.6
≥4 9.1 8.2 8.2
Cortical cataract at baseline 0 33.6 34.1 37.8 34.1
>0, <10% 55.5 55.4 62.2 55.7
≥10% 10.9 10.4 10.2
PSC cataract at baseline <0.1 93.7 94.3 94.4 95.1
≥0.1, <5% 4.9 4.6 4.6 4.9
≥5% 1.4 1.0 1.0

D = Diopter; PSC = Posterior Subcapsular.