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Table 10 Changes in keratoconus by gender

From: From post-war reconstruction to the twenty-first century – ophthalmic pathology in Freiburg 1945–2015: review of 39,256 surgical specimens from various topographical regions collected over 71 years at a large German tertiary eye care centre

Time period

1945–1954

1955–1964

1965–1974

1975–1984

1985–1994

1995–2004

2005–2015

Total number

Female patients

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

8 (24%)

47 (39%)

48 (31%)

75 (35%)

110 (25%)

288 (30%)

Male patients

0 (0%)

2 (100%)

25 (76%)

71 (58%)

107 (69%)

140 (65%)

331 (74%)

676 (69%)

Gender not documented

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

4 (3.0%)

0 (0%)

2 (0.9%)

5 (1.1%)

11 (1.1%)

Sum

0

2

33

122

155

217

446

975

  1. Number and relative frequency of keratoconus specimens from female and male patients received within 10-year intervals (2005–2025: 11 years) during the observation period (1945–2015). Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding