Table 1.

Central corneal sensitivity and corneal confocal microscopic parameters in patients with Behçet’s disease and healthy control group.

	Healthy control group (n = 30)	Patients with Behçet’s disease (n = 49)	P-value
Central corneal sensitivity (cm, mean ± SD)	5.9 ± 0.2	5.6 ± 0.6	0.066a
Nerve fiber density (fibers/mm2, mean ± SD)	35.6 ± 10.0	27.7 ± 8.6	0.001a
Nerve branch density (branches/mm2, mean ± SD)	46.8 ± 24.3	36.9 ± 23.9	0.067a
Nerve fiber length (mm/mm2, mean ± SD)	18.5 ± 4.1	16.3 ± 4.6	0.031b
Dendritic cell density [cells/mm2, median (IQR)]	10.1 (4.5–26.3)	19.6 (6.3–46.3)	0.038a

^aMann–Whitney test.

^bIndependent samples t-test.