TABLE 1.

The demographic and clinical features of the study population and their eyes in the study groups.

	PHOMS (+) group (n = 30)	PHOMS (−) group (n = 30)	Control group (n = 30)	p	Post‐hoc c
					(+)/(−)	(+)/C	(−)/C
Age, years
Mean ± SD (min–max)	12.6 ± 2.9 (7–18)	13.0 ± 2.9 (8–17)	13.5 ± 2.4 (10–17)	0.476 a	–	–	–
Gender, n (%)
Female	20 (66.7)	19 (63.3)	23 (76.7)	0.510 b	–	–	–
Male	10 (33.3)	11 (36.7)	7 (23.3)
SE, D
Mean ± SD (min–max)	−2.88 ± 1.34 (−7.25 to −1.25)	−3.28 ± 1.61 (−8.13 to −1.25)	−0.11 ± 0.58 (−0.88 to 0.88)	<0.001 a	0.436	<0.001	<0.001
AL, mm
Mean ± SD (min–max)	24.55 ± 0.83 (23.08–27.16)	24.68 ± 1.05 (23.15–26.95)	23.30 ± 0.53 (22.38–24.22)	<0.001 a	0.804	<0.001	<0.001
ONH tilt, °
Mean ± SD (min–max)	8.09 ± 2.31 (3.98–14.33)	3.50 ± 1.51 (1.21–7.33)	0.60 ± 0.32 (0.00–3.02)	<0.001 a	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

Note: Bold p‐values indicate statistical significance.

Abbreviations: AL, axial length; D, dioptre; max, maximum; min, minimum; ONH, optic nerve head; PHOMS, peripapillary hyper‐reflective ovoid mass‐like structures; SD, standard deviation; SE, spherical equivalent.

^a One‐way analysis of variance test.

^b Chi‐squared test.

^c Tukey test, p‐values adjusted for pairwise comparisons.