Table 1: Mean ± standard deviation of the ocular surface parameters that were measured between two groups.
|
Parameters |
Pterygium Group (N = 50) |
Control Group (N = 50) |
P-value |
|
OSDI score |
13.7 ± 0.8 |
9.8 ± 0.8 |
< 0.001a |
|
Lid margin abnormality |
1.2 ± 0.7 |
0.7 ± 0.6 |
< 0.001 |
|
Meibum expression |
1.4 ± 0.5 |
0.4 ± 0.5 |
< 0.001 |
|
TBUT (Secs) |
4.4 ± 0.6 |
6.6 ± 1.2 |
< 0.001 |
|
SIT (mm) |
10.3 ± 0.4 |
10.1 ± 0.3 |
0.076 (> 0.05) |
|
Lower tear meniscus evaluated by TD-OCT |
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|
TMH (µm) |
225.12 ± 14.24 |
228.78 ± 14.00 |
0.198 (> 0.05) |
|
TMD (µm) |
197.08 ± 13.21 |
201.44 ± 27.81 |
0.319 (> 0.05) |
|
TMA (10-9 mm2) |
25631.02 ± 456.60 |
25777.28 ± 477.87 |
0.121 (> 0.05) |
aIndependent t-test showed a significant difference between primary pterygium and control groups (p < 0.05); bCorrelation/MLR showed a significant difference between OSDI score and other tested variables (p < 0.05) suggest to include these Table or any graph for correlation or MLR???