TABLE 1.

Clinical characteristics of the participants.

Characteristic	Myopia group n = 19 (32 eyes)	Normal group n = 12 (20 eyes)	p-value
Male (%)	10 (52)	6 (50)	1.00
Age (years), mean (SD)	23.42 (4.03)	22.93 (2.91)	0.86
Spherical Equivalent Refraction (D), mean (SD)	–3.02 (1.60)	–0.34 (0.52)	0.001**
[–3D, –0.5D] (n = 20), mean (SD)	–2.00 (0.63)
[–6D, –3D] (n = 12), mean (SD)	–4.68 (0.73)
Best Corrected Visual Acuity (logMAR), mean (SD)	–0.10 (0.10)	–0.10 (0.10)	0.98
Axial length (mm)	24.87 (0.44)	23.76 (0.40)	0.001**

SD, standard deviation. **Statistically significant difference between myopia group and normal group (t-test, **p = 0.001).