The Impact of Unilateral or Bilateral Cataract Surgery on Visual Acuity and Life Quality of Elderly Patients

Table 4

Effects of systemic comorbidities, ocular comorbidities, surgical complications, and gender on the improvement of VRQOL score at the end of follow-up period (, ).

	Unilateral cataract extraction patients		Bilateral cataract extraction patients		All cataract extraction patients
	Mean improvement in score (SD)	value	Mean improvement in score (SD)	value	Mean improvement in score (SD)	value
With systemic comorbidities	25.00 (17.89)	0.671	47.64 (30.58)	0.158	35.83 (26.80)	0.149
Without systemic comorbidities	24.05 (18.89)		26.89 (28.18)		25.40 (23.49)
With ocular comorbidities	21. 60 (19.31)	0.550	25.94 (35.07)	0.094^**	24.33 (29.84)	0.135
Without ocular comorbidities	25.61 (18.07)		45.69 (18.45)		32.86 (20.44)
With surgical complication	7.60 (10.60)	0.019^*	11.00 (23.45)	0.094^**	9.11 (16.30)	0.006^*
Without surgical complication	27.39 (17.78)		38.12 (29.96)		32.56 (24.78)
Female	25.12 (16.87)	0.763	30.93 (32.39)	0.412	27.84 (25.09)	0.655
Male	23.63 (20.13)		38.07 (28.75)		30.61 (25.34)