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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2019 Jul 3;96:385–399. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.06.050

Table 2:

Comparison of average strain outcomes and ALD change in the central and peripheral ALC regions. The central ALC had greater average Ezz and Emax strains compared to the peripheral ALC in both suturelysis and goggle eyes (p < 0.006,n = 10).

Sample Size Outcomes in Anterior LC Central Average Peripheral Average Mean Difference Central - Peripheral (95% CI) p-value
repeated anova
Suturelysis
(n=5)		 ALD Change (μm) 3.732±1.864 3.543±2.018 0.189 (−0.856, 1.233) 0.6421
Ezz Strain (10−2) 0.888±0.211 0.490±0.308 0.398 (0.138, 0.657) 0.0131
Emax Strain (10−2) 1.367±0.480 1.212±0.332 0.155 (−0.124, 0.433) 0.1977
Γmax Strain (10−2) 1.078±0.493 0.945±0.342 0.134 (−0.311, 0.578) 0.4512
Goggles
(n=5)		 ALD Change (μm) 0.597±1.957 0.356±1.967 0.241 (−0.890, 1.372) 0.5858
Ezz Strain (10−2) 0.387±0.025 0.188±0.199 0.199 (−0.019, 0.416) 0.0641
Emax Strain (10−2) 0.895±0.369 0.529±0.220 0.365 (0.121, 0.610) 0.0143
Γmax Strain (10−2) 0.669±0.253 0.557±0.176 0.112 (−0.152, 0.376) 0.3031
All Eyes
(n=10)		 ALD Change (μm) 2.164±2.445 1.949±2.520 0.108 (−0.367, 0.583) 0.6189
Ezz Strain (10−2) 0.638±0.300 0.339±0.291 0.298 (0.148, 0.448) 0.0015
Emax Strain (10−2) 1.131±0.474 0.871 ±0.447 0.260 (0.097, 0.423) 0.0057
Γmax Strain (10−2) 0.874±0.428 0.751±0.328 0.123 (−0.076, 0.322) 0.1954