Table 2.

The comparisons between normal and glaucomatous eyes for retinal blood flow, retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and ganglion cell complex thickness.

	Normal (n = 27)	Glaucoma (n = 30)	p-value*
Total Retinal Blood Flow (μL/min)	46.5 ± 10.6	34.6 ± 12.2	<0.001
Superior Retinal Blood Flow (μL/min)	24.5 ± 8.2	17.7 ± 5.6	<0.001
Inferior Retinal Blood Flow (μL/min)	21.9 ± 5.6	16.7 ± 8.7	0.01
Average venous cross sectional area (mm2)	0.052 ± 0.012	0.039 ± 0.009	<0.001
Superior venous cross sectional area (mm2)	0.028 ± 0.008	0.020 ± 0.005	< 0.001
Inferior venous cross sectional area (mm2)	0.024 ± 0.007	0.019 ± 0.005	< 0.001
Average venous blood flow velocity (mm/s)	15.0 ± 2.3	13.7 ± 6.3	0.30
Average arteriolar cross sectional area (mm2)	0.036 ± 0.009	0.028 ± 0.008	0.002
Superior arteriolar cross sectional area (mm2)	0.020 ± 0.005	0.015 ± 0.007	0.04
Inferior arteriolar cross sectional area (mm2)	0.017 ± 0.004	0.012 ± 0.004	0.007
Average RNFL (μm)	101.0 ± 6.6	85.0 ± 15.5	<0.001
Superior RNFL (μm)	123.6 ± 13.7	94.2 ± 20.9	<0.001
Inferior RNFL (μm)	126.1 ± 11.6	96.4 ± 23.2	<0.001
Average GCC (μm)	96.1 ± 5.7	80.6 ± 10.3	<0.001
Superior GCC (μm)	95.6 ± 5.0	82.2 ± 9.8	<0.001
Inferior GCC (μm)	96.7 ± 6.7	79.0 ± 12.8	<0.001

^*One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Tukey-Kramer Honesty Significant Difference (HSD) posthoc test (JMP 8.0.2);

RNFL = retinal nerve fiber layer thickness; GCC = ganglion cell complex thickness.