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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Optom Vis Sci. 2012 May;89(5):727–737. doi: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e318253de7e

Table 2.

Models of ciliary muscle thickness as a function of accommodative response while including all control variables: age, axial length, height, and the cycloplegic ciliary muscle thickness.

Variable CMTMAX CMT1 CMT2 CMT3
Coefficient p-value Coefficient p-value Coefficient p-value Coefficient p-value
Intercept 756.7 730.2 525.1 315.0
Accommodative Response (D) −14.4 <0.001 −10.5 <0.001 0.33  0.8 5.3   <0.001
Age (years) −8.8  0.3 −9.0  0.3 −14.3 0.2 −14.7 0.1
Mean Axial Length (mm) −4.9  0.6 3.1   0.7 34.1  0.003 29.2  0.003
Height (cm) 2.2   0.1 2.1   0.1 3.4   0.05 2.7   0.06
Cycloplegic ciliary muscle thickness (µm) 0.45  <0.001 0.39  0.002 0.23  0.1 0.24  0.05

CMTMAX = maximum ciliary muscle thickness

CMT1, CMT2, and CMT3 = ciliary muscle thickness 1 mm, 2 mm, and 3 mm posterior to scleral spur respectively