Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of low and high total cholesterol (TC) groups

	Low TC group	High TC group	P value
Age during surgery (years)	65.5 ± 9.2	63.9 ± 10.9	0.647
Number of patients (men/women)	27/15	23/8	0.449
BMIa (kg/m2)	25.0 ± 3.4	26.1 ± 4.3	0.539
Total cholesterol level (mg/dl)	182.6 ± 26.1	248.4 ± 27.0	< 0.001
Triglyceride level (mg/dl)	163.6 ± 108.7	243.2 ± 167.8	0.018
Constant score	41.2 ± 17.1b	39.3 ± 17.8c	0.668
Tear sizes of patients (partial/small or middle/large or massive)	8/17/17	5/9/17	0.465
Samilson–Prieto classification of patients (normal/mild/moderate/severe)	4/15/22/1	6/11/14/0	0.535

^aBody mass index

^bInformation missing for seven patients

^cInformation missing for four patients