highly significantp < 0.01
Results were interpreted as two-sided, with p -values less than 0.05 considered statistically significant and those less than 0.01 considered highly significant. 3 Results 3.1 General information The results reveal pronounced differences across the four groups in age, BCVA, AL, SE, IOP ( p < 0.01), and gender ( p < 0.05), as shown in Table 2 .