Table 1.
Case demographics and preoperative ocular characteristics
| Characteristic | |
| Number of eyes (cases) (n) | 1541 |
| Sex [number of patients (%)] | |
| Female | 554 (60.1) |
| Male | 368 (39.9) |
| Age (years) | |
| Mean (SD) | 70.4 (9.8) |
| Median (range) | 71 (18–98) |
| Ethnicity, number of patients (%)a | |
| Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish | 114 (12.4) |
| Not Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish | 807 (87.6) |
| Race [number of patients (%)]b | |
| Asian | 16 (1.7) |
| Black or African-American | 105 (11.4) |
| White | 686 (74.5) |
| Concomitant conditions [number of cases (%)] | |
| Diabetes | 448 (29.1) |
| Glaucoma | 68 (4.4) |
| Epiretinal membrane | 11 (0.7) |
| Diabetes + glaucoma | 22 (1.4) |
| Diabetes + epiretinal membrane | 1 (0.1) |
| IOP (mmHg) | |
| Number of cases (n) | 1517 |
| Mean (SD) | 15.4 (3.5) |
| Range | 5.7–30 |
| Cataract density [number of cases (%)] | |
| Number of cases (n) | 1534 |
| 1 and 1+ | 158 (10.3) |
| 2 and 2+ | 653 (42.6) |
| 3 and 3+ | 670 (43.7) |
| 4 and 4+ | 53 (3.4) |
IOP, intraocular pressure.
aEthnicity was not available for one patient (n = 921).
bRace was only recorded for patients who were not Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish (n = 807).