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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: Cornea. 2013 Oct;32(10):1354–1358. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31829e3c80

Table 3.

Logistic regression analysis of risk factors for OSSN among the study population

Odds ratiob 95% CI P-value
Demographics
Decade of Age 1.00 0.82−1.22 0.92
Race (black v. white) 0.72 0.19−2.71 0.63
Ethnicity (H v. NH) 0.65 0.08–5.10 0.68
Tobacco usea 1.44 0.63–3.26 0.39
Combata 1.41 0.49–4.06 0.53
Diagnoses
Skin malignancy (BCC or SCC)a 4.40 2.03–9.55 <0.0005
Melanomaa 2.13 0.29–15.74 0.46
Any cancer 1.23 0.59–2.59 0.59
Diabetes mellitus 0.33 0.13–0.81 0.02
Actinic keratosisa 2.04 0.90–4.63 0.09
Atopic eczemaa 1.35 0.18–9.92 0.77
HIVa 2.11 0.50–8.91 0.31
HPVa 1.15 0.16–8.49 0.89
Pterygium 16.2 7.11–36.9 <0.0005

OSSN= ocular surface squamous neoplasia; H = Hispanic, NH = non-Hispanic, BCC = basal cell carcinoma, SCC = squamous cell carcinoma, HPV = human papilloma virus, HIV = human immunodeficiency virus, CI = confidence interval,

a

odds ratios presented as presence of risk factor versus absence of risk factor

b

Univariable analysis