Table 1.

Demographics of donors of optic nerve head (ONH) samples used in ageing and glaucoma studies.

normal eyes
transverse sections			longitudinal sections
age (years)	sex	left/right eye	age (years)	sex	left/right eye	orientationa
young eyes
2	M	left	11	F	right left	N-T S-I
6	M	left	21	M	right left	N-T S-I
21	F	left	57	M	right left	N-T S-I
elderly eyes
88	F	left	62	M	right left	N-T S-I
88 (C1)b	F	right	78	M	right left	N-T S-I
87 (C2)b	M	left	82	F	right left	S-I N-T
85 (C3)b	F	left	88	M	right left	N-T S-I
glaucoma eyes
transverse sections
age (years)	sex	left/right eye	mean deviationc (dB)	cup/disc ratio	glaucoma severity
G1 86	M	right	−1.54 in 2002	unknown	mild
G2 73	M	left	unknown	unknown	unknown, diagnosis in 2007
G3 87	F	left	−12.81 in 2008	0.9	advanced

^aLongitudinal sections across the nasal–temporal (N-T) or superior–inferior (S-I) optic nerve axis, used in analysis of LC regions as a function of ageing.

^bElderly samples also used as controls in glaucoma ONH comparisons.

^cVisual field mean deviation (MD).