Table 3.

Overview of the analysis on the data derived from raw data or published plots of each individual study (NC: nuclear cataract; CC: cortical cataract; and PSC: posterior subcapsular cataract).

Cataract	First author (year)	Eyes (n)	Mean ± SD			log(s)-age		log(s)-logMAR
			Age (Y)	VA (logMAR)	SL (log(s))	Dependency	R 2	Dependency	R 2
NC	Filgueira (2016)	14	69 ± 18	0.10 ± 0.08	1.33 ± 0.21	log(s) = 0.008 × age + 0.75	0.02	log(s) = 0.14 × logMAR − 0.08	0.14
	Congdon (2012)	24	65 ± 10	0.22 ± 0.14	1.36 ± 0.33	log(s) = 0.019 × age + 0.12	0.36	log(s) = 0.82 × logMAR + 1.17	0.13
	Bal (2011)	23	67 ± 9	0.28 ± 0.18	1.50 ± 0.24	log(s) = 0.001 × age + 1.54	0.00	log(s) = 0.51 × logMAR + 1.36	0.14
	Nischler (2010)	512	63 ± 9	−0.05 ± 0.12	1.19 ± 0.17	log(s) = 0.008 × age + 0.65	0.21	log(s) = 0.44 × logMAR + 1.21	0.10
	de Waard (1992)	18	NA	0.39 ± 0.14	1.54 ± 0.16	NA	NA	log(s) = 0.01 × logMAR + 1.42	0.08
CC	Filgueira (2016)	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Congdon (2012)	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Bal (2011)	15	67 ± 7	0.25 ± 0.20	1.48 ± 0.29	log(s) = 0.020 × age + 0.13	0.26	log(s) = −0.28 × logMAR + 1.55	0.04
	Nischler (2010)	78	62 ± 8	−0.06 ± 0.09	1.20 ± 0.17	log(s) = 0.008 × age + 0.69	0.17	log(s) = 0.13 × logMAR + 1.21	0.00
	de Waard (1992)	16	NA	0.24 ± 0.13	1.34 ± 0.29	NA	NA	log(s) = 1.22 × logMAR + 1.04	0.29
PSC	Filgueira (2016)	20	56 ± 5	0.03 ± 0.05	1.17 ± 0.27	log(s) = 0.013 × age + 0.42	0.06	log(s) = 0.04 × logMAR − 0.02	0.11
	Congdon (2012)	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Bal (2011)	20	64 ± 9	0.30 ± 0.22	1.79 ± 0.20	log(s) = 0.001 × age + 1.77	0.00	log(s) = 0.13 × logMAR + 1.76	0.02
	Nischler (2010)	18	61 ± 8	0.02 ± 0.11	1.30 ± 0.27	log(s) = 0.000 × age + 1.19	0.00	log(s) = 1.02 × logMAR + 1.28	0.17
	de Waard (1992)	17	NA	0.26 ± 0.18	1.67 ± 0.21	NA	NA	log(s) = 0.33 × logMAR + 1.58	0.08