Incidence of new coding for dry eye and ocular infection in open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension patients treated with prostaglandin analogs: Retrospective analysis of three medical/pharmacy claims databases

Table 3 Patient characteristics

Characteristic	Latanoprost N = 15,933	Travoprost-Z N = 7670	p-value
Diagnosis, n (%)			<0.0001
Open-angle glaucoma	13,918 (87.4)	6837 (89.1)
Ocular hypertension	2015 (12.6)	833 (10.9)
Sex, n (%)*			0.55
Female	8413 (52.8)	4008 (52.3)
Male	7519 (47.2)	3662 (47.7)
Age, years: Mean ± SD	67.4 ± 13.3	66.3 ± 13.0	<0.0001
Charlson Comorbidity Index:
Mean ± SD	0.74 ± 1.25	0.67 ± 1.15	<0.0001
Geographic region^†			0.17
Northeast	2914 (18.3)	1071 (14.0)
Midwest	5004 (31.4)	2440 (31.9)
South	5270 (33.1)	2756 (36.0)
West	2728 (17.1)	1387 (18.1)

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