Table 1.

Healing time of CPE in T2DM patients and controls

	Eyes	Days to healing (mean ± SD)	P values
Dry eye
T2DM	40	21.56 ± 2.41	P = 0.001
Controls	35	7.00 ± 2.19
MGD
T2DM	42	26.42 ± 6.04	P = 0.001
Controls	37	9.21 ± 2.55
Cataract extraction
T2DM	38	38.00 ± 19.62	P = 0.043
Controls	35	25.83 ± 11.49
Drug
T2DM	20	53.19 ± 18.83	P = 0.018
Controls	21	41.86 ± 23.87
Exposure
T2DM	20	38.25 ± 14.13	P = 0.026
Controls	21	29.00 ± 13.67
Total	309	25.97 ± 18.21	–