Table 15: GRADE Profile Question: What is the association between myopia and prevalent POAG?
| Quality Assessment | Summary of Findings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studies | Design | Quality | Consistency | Directness | Other modifying factors |
Number of Subjects POAG/Total Study Sample Total | Quality |
| Chennai Aravind Beaver Dam Blue Mtns. |
Cross-sectional | *Serious | †Some inconsistency | None | none | 64/3924 64/5150 104/4926 108/3654 340/17,654 |
Low |
| GRADE | Low | Very Low |
Very Low | Very Low | Very Low | Very Low | |
*
Aravind study did not define mild, moderate or severe myopia therefore difficult to interpret results
†
Some inconsistency at -0.5D. The magnitude of odds ratio association at 1.0D is not consistently > 2.0 (defined as strong association in Grade)