Table 1.

Patient characteristics in the DMC and ARC groups, including numbers of patients, age, gender, right or left eye, fasting glucose and glycosylated haemoglobin

	DMC group	ARC group	P value
Number	33	36	-
Age (years)	69.85 ± 6.85	70.36 ± 8.08	0.776
Gender
Male	9	8	0.627
Female	24	28
Right or left eye
Right eye	23	25	0.982
Left eye	10	11
Fasting glucose(mmol/L)	6.31 ± 1.34	5.55 ± 0.06	< 0.001
Glycosylated haemoglobin	7.15 ± 1.03%	5.90 ± 0.57%	< 0.001