Increased Choroidal Thickness in Keratoconus Patients: Perspectives in the Disease Pathophysiology

Table 1

Summary of demographical and clinical characteristics by group.

	Keratoconus (n = 134)	Controls (n = 78)
Age, years	23.01 ± 4.68	22.40 ± 5.77
Spherical equivalent, diopters	−2.19 ± 2.24	−1.94 ± 1.94
BCVA, decimal^a	0.80 ± 0.21	0.98 ± 0.06
Women, n	n = 42 (31.3%)	n = 48 (61.5%)

Results are expressed as mean ± SD for continuous variables, and gender is expressed as count and percentage of women. BCVA, best-corrected visual acuity.