Association between MMP/TIMP Levels in the Aqueous Humor and Plasma with Axial Lengths in Myopia Patients

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of patients with a high degree of myopia, divided into three groups, based on the axial length (AL). Group A: ; Group B: ; Group C: .

Clinical characteristics	A	B	C	Total	value
Sex
Female	7	15	6	28	0.316^†
Male	1	7	3	11
Eye
OD	8	22	9	39	1.000^‡
OS	8	22	9	39
Age ()					0.976^§
Axial length () (mm)
OD					≤0.001^ξ
OS					≤0.001^§
Spherical equivalent (), diopters
OD					0.004^§
OS					0.003^§

OD: right eye; OS: left eye. ^†Fisher’s exact test. ^‡Pearson’s chi-squared test. ^§Independent-sample Kruskal-Wallis test. ^ξOne-way ANOVA test.