Table 1 Morphometric summary and descriptive statistics
Aged transparent lenses [4] | Age-related nuclear cataracts [4] | Transparent diabetic lenses | Diabetic lenses with nuclear cataract | |||||||||
Parameter | mean ± s | Median (Minimum and Maximum) | n | mean ± s | Median (Minimum and Maximum) | n | mean ± s | Median (Minimum and Maximum) | n | mean ± s | Median (Minimum and Maximum) | n |
Anterior FN Elliptical Angles (°) | 25 ± 2 | 25 (23,29) | 13 | 22 ± 3 | 23 (18,26) | 8 | 26 ± 1 | 26 (25,27) | 6 | 23 ± 2 | 23 (22,26) | 5 |
Posterior FN Elliptical Angles (°) | 27 ± 2 | 27 (25,30) | 13 | 24 ± 3 | 25 (20,28) | 8 | 28 ± 1 | 28 (27,29) | 6 | 25 ± 1 | 25 (24,27) | 5 |
EN A-P Axis Length (μm) | 141 ± 12 | 140 (120,160) | 9 | 123 ± 9 | 125 (110,132) | 6 | 138 ± 10 | 134 (131,158) | 6 | 125 ± 6 | 123 (120,134) | 5 |
# EN Fiber Folds/20 μm | 5.40 ± 1.19 | 5.31 (2.75,6.67) | 9 | 6.26 ± 0.48 | 6.11 (5.83,7.06) | 6 | 6.53 ± 0.23 | 6.50 (6.33,6.89) | 5 | 6.95 ± 0.29 | 7.05 (6.48,7.22) | 5 |