Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of patients with chiasmal compression preoperatively and healthy controls.

	Patients (N = 62)	Healthy controls (N = 44)	P value
Age (years)	51 ± 13	49 ± 11	0.5012*
Sex (M/F)	24/38	17/27	0.9939†
Spherical equivalent (diopters)	− 0.99 ± 1.73	− 1.37 ± 1.89	0.2389‡
Symptom duration (months)	5.71 ± 9.97	–
Preoperative VF (MD)	− 8.03 ± 6.28	0.09 ± 1.16	< 0.0001‡
Preoperative BCVA (logMAR)	0.14 ± 0.23	0.0 ± 0.01	< 0.0001‡

Significant values are indicated in bold.

N numbers, M male, F female, VF visual field, MD mean deviation, BCVA best-corrected visual acuity.

*P value by Student’s t-test.

^†P value by Chi-squared test.

^‡P value by Wilcoxon rank sum test.