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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cataract Refract Surg. 2019 Oct;45(10):1458–1462. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2019.05.053

Table 2.

Lens opacity scores at each time point and changes from baseline.

Baseline Month 12 Month 24 Month 36
Right Eyes N 70 58 36 29
Nuclear Mean (SD) 2.44 (1.23) 2.1 (1.26) 2.03 (1.22) 1.97(1.31)
Mean (SD) change from baseline --- −0.29 (0.68) −0.19 (0.60) −0.2(0.68)
p-value --- 0.0022 0.0707 0.1252
Cortical Mean (SD) 0.39 (1.08) 0.33 (0.96) 0.37 (1.14) 0.13(0.17)
Mean (SD) change from baseline --- −0.12 (0.78) −0.06 (0.66) −0.07(0.57)
p-value --- 0.2416 0.6195 0.5197
Posterior Subcapsular Mean (SD) 0.22 (0.59) 0.20 (0.57) 0.04 (0.05) 0.10(0)
Mean (SD) change from baseline --- 0.02 (0.71) −0.17 (0.51) −0.13(0.56)
p-value --- 0.8398 0.0592 0.2165
Left Eyes N 72 61 40 34
Nuclear Mean (SD) 2.4 (1.16) 2.07 (1.23) 2.09 (1.15) 2.04(1.27)
Mean (SD) change from baseline --- −0.27 (0.69) −0.15 (0.63) −0.1(0.59)
p-value --- 0.0033 0.1522 0.3275
Cortical Mean (SD) 0.3 (0.85) 0.39 (0.98) 0.36 (0.96) 0.3(0.86)
Mean (SD) change from baseline --- 0.05 (0.65) 0.07 (0.45) 0.08(0.27)
p-value --- 0.5815 0.3717 0.0835
Posterior Subcapsular Mean (SD) 0.15 (0.36) 0.19 (0.45) 0.04 (0.05) 0.16(0.33)
Mean (SD) change from baseline --- 0.05 (0.59) −0.14 (0.47) −0.03(0.17)
p-value --- 0.5479 0.0753 0.3246