Table 3.

Clinical characteristics of low and high total triglyceride (TG) groups

	Low TG group	High TG group	P-value
Age during surgery (years)	65.5 ± 8.3	64.2 ± 11.2	0.846
Number of patients (men/women)	16/17	34/6	0.001
BMIa (kg/m2)	24.6 ± 5.5	26.2 ± 4.0	0.094
Constant score	41.7 ± 17.2b	38.9 ± 17.6c	0.549
Total cholesterol level (mg/dl)	202.7 ± 38.4	217.1 ± 44.1	0.202
Triglyceride level (mg/dl)	98.7 ± 33.3	278.4 ± 145.1	< 0.001
Tear sizes of patients (partial/small or middle/large or massive)	4/13/16	9/13/18	0.501
Samilson–Prieto classification of patients (normal/mild/moderate/severe)	5/14/14/0	5/12/22/1	0.516

^aBody mass index

^bInformation missing for three patients

^cInformation missing for eleven patients