Table 1.

Demographic and medical parameters

	Control	POAG	p*
Number of subjects	22	30
Number of eyes	43	57
Age (SEM), year	66.4 [1.6]	65.2 [1.5]	0.599
Gender (female:male)	14:8	16:14	0.458
Systolic pressure (SEM), mmHg	132.1 [2.1]	135.0 [1.7]	0.351
DIASTOLIC pressure (SEM), mmHg	82.6 [2.0]	82.9 [1.2]	0.558
IOP (SEM), mmHg	14.3 [0.6]	12.3 [0.5]	0.021
Cup/disc ratio	0.4 [0.02]	0.7 [0.03]	< 0.001
Hypertension, n	2	4	0.973
Cardiovascular diseases, n	1	2	-
Diabetes, n	1	1	-
Hyperlipidemia, n	0	1	-
Depression, n	2	2	-
Mean deviation, dB		− 6.3 [0.9]
IOP-lowering eye drop†, n		1.6 [0.1]

^*Chi-square test for gender analysis, Mann–Whitney U-test for other comparisons between control and glaucoma groups. ^†One compound eye drop is considered as two types of eye drops