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. 2017 Aug 17;12(8):e0181922. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181922

Table 2. Associations of IOP on univariable regression.

Parameters P value
Grade 1 Children Grade 7
Children
General Parameters
    Age 0.21 0.05
    Gender# < .0001 < .0001
    Number of myopic parents 0.0089 0.002
    Height 0.27 0.01
    Weight 0.99 < .0001
    Waist 0.047 0.06
    BMI 0.57 0.0004
    Birth length 0.09 0.44
    Birth weight 0.10 0.57
    Birth method** 0.047 0.0003
    Gestational weeks 0.02 0.41
    Smoking during pregnancy* 0.85 0.67
    Living with smoker during pregnancy* 0.27 0.98
    Doing Chinese eye exercise* 0.56 0.82
    Systolic pressure < .0001 < .0001
    Diastolic pressure < .0001 0.0009
    Mean arterial pressure < .0001 < .0001
    Age at commencement of reading 0.99 0.003
    Maximum time spent reading continuously 0.26 0.13
    Distance between face and book when reading /writing 0.37 0.17
    Headache during near work* 0.53 0.47
    Books read per week 0.11 0.62
    Time spent on near work 0.09 0.43
    Time spent outdoors 0.03 0.80
    Time spent sleeping 0.0497 0.02
    Lights on while sleeping at night* 0.75 0.84
    Parents smoking status* 0.17 0.008
    Water intake per day 0.60 0.04
    Freqency for drinking tea 0.74 0.59
    Favorite beverage 0.94 0.17
    Frequency for drinking coffee 0.25 0.87
Ocular Parameters
    Central corneal thickness < .0001 < .0001
    Spherical equivalent < .0001 < .0001
    Axial length 0.03 < .0001
    Anterior chamber depth 0.01 0.0001
    Dominant eye 0.08 0.03
    Age of myopia onset 0.42 0.09

# male as reference

† 0 as reference

**Normal labour as reference

* Answer ‘no’ as reference