Non-drivers before surgery and subjective reasons for not driving after surgery in relation to age, sex, surgery on first eye and right eye, respectively, and mean visual acuity (MVA) before and after surgery in operated, fellow, and better eye, respectively (n=92)
| Started to drive after surgery | Not driving after surgery | ||||
| All |
Subjectively too old to drive | Subjectively visual function too bad | |||
| No of cases: | 23 | 69 | 25 | 4 | |
| Mean age (years) | 64.0 | 76.0 | 77.2 | 55.8 | |
| Age range | 38–87 | 44–90 | 68–86 | 47–66 | |
| Males | 11/23 (48%) | 36/69 (52%) | 10/25 (40%) | 0 | |
| First eye | 17/23 (74%) | 51/69 (74%) | 20/25 (80%) | 4/4 (100%) | |
| Right eye | 14/23 (61%) | 34/69 (49%) | 12/25 (47%) | 1/4 (25%) | |
| Before surgery: | |||||
| MVA eye to be operated | 1.31 (0.58) | 1.35 (0.62) | 1.38 (0.68) | 1.10 (0.66) | |
| MVA fellow eye | 0.35 (0.47) | 0.48 (0.48) | 0.28 (0.27) | 0.50 (0.24) | |
| After surgery: | |||||
| MVA operated eye | 0.09 (0.12) | 0.24 (0.30) | 0.11 (0.11) | 0.06 (0.07) | |
| MVA better eye | 0.05 (0.06) | 0.19 (0.28) | 0.07 (0.07) | 0.06 (0.07) | |