Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the study groups.

	Study group	Control group	p-Value
	mean ± SD	mean ± SD
n	25	25
age (years)	64.56 ± 7.23	64.76 ± 9.81	0.935
sphericalequivalent (D)	0.81 ± 1.16	0.52 ± 1.47	0.503
IOD	13.95 ± 2.39	15.25 ± 2.49	0.136
visualacuity	0.86 ± 0.17	0.89 ± 0.18	0.604
comorbidity
diabetes	2	2
art. hypertension	21	7
hyperlipoproteinemia	21	3

Bold: statistically significant results.