Table 2 Mortality rates of Korean elderly patients according to history of glaucoma surgery.

From: Association between glaucoma surgery and all-cause and cause-specific mortality among elderly patients with glaucoma: a nationwide population-based cohort study

Cause of mortality

Mortality rate, No. of deaths/total person-years

(incidence per 1000 Person-years; 95% CI)

Surgery group

Non-surgery group

All-cause

83/2388 (34.76; 28.03–43.10)

2951/105,850 (27.88; 26.89–28.90)

Cancer

21/2388 (8.79; 5.73–13.49)

860/105,850 (8.12; 7.60–8.69)

Vascular

17/2388 (7.12; 4.43–11.45)

695/105,850 (6.57; 6.10–7.07)

Pulmonary

9/2388 (3.77; 1.96–7.24)

322/105,850 (3.04; 2.73–3.39)

Neurologic

6/2388 (2.51; 1.13–5.59)

98/105,850 (0.93; 0.76–1.13)

Infectious

2/2388 (0.84; 0.21–3.35)

86/105,850 (0.81; 0.66–1.00)

Accident or trauma

7/2388 (2.93; 1.40–6.15)

227/105,850 (2.14; 1.88–2.44)

  1. Cox model with glaucoma surgery status as a time-varying covariate.
  2. CI confidence interval.
Back to article page