Table 1 Demographics and clinical characteristics of groups (n:230)

Sex- female

39 (56.5%)

24 (52.2%)

0.646^*

Age, years

40.8 ± 13.2

39.8 ± 8.2

0.604^†

BCVA, Snellen

0.91 ± 0.1

0.94 ± 0.1

0.071^‡

SE, D

-0.35 ± 0.3

-0.38 ± 0.3

0.433^‡

IOP, mmHg

14.9 ± 3

14.0 ± 2.7

0.295^‡

TBUT, seconds

1.32 ± 0.8

15.2 ± 3.2

< 0.001^‡

Schirmer test, mm/5 min

0.06 ± 0.3

25.7 ± 6.3

< 0.001^‡

Corneal fluorescein staining^a

5.89 ± 2.1

0.24 ± 0.4

< 0.001^‡

Conjunctival fluorescein staining^b

1.71 ± 1.1

0.2 ± 0.4

< 0.001^‡

OSDI score

61.62 ± 15

4.21 ± 2.8

< 0.001^‡