Table 1.

Basic Characteristics of Emmetropia/Low Myopia, Simple High Myopia, and Pathological Myopia Groups

Characteristics	EM/LM	HM	PM	P *	P1†	P2‡	P3§
Patients/eyes, n	21/42	26/48	33/46	—||	—	—	—
Age (y), mean ± SD	38 ± 8	36 ± 6	38 ± 8	0.406	1.000	1.000	0.594
Sex (male/female), n	11/10	11/15	14/19	0.731	0.491	0.474	0.993
IOP (mm Hg), mean ± SD	13.46 ± 2.29	14.21 ± 2.16	14.03 ± 3.11	0.368	0.519	0.937	1.000
SE (D), mean ± SD	−0.89 ± 1.18	−8.86 ± 2.65	−14.79 ± 3.49	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
AL (mm), mean ± SD	23.97 ± 1.23	27.21 ± 1.07	29.57± 1.59	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
BCVA (logMAR), mean ± SD	−0.10 ± 0.07	0.01 ± 0.07	0.18 ± 0.17	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

^* P value among the three groups.

^† P value between the EM/LM and HM groups.

^‡ P value between the EM/LM and PM groups.

^§ P value between the HM and PM groups.

^||Not performed.