Table 2. Association between key demographic, biological, and occupational factors, and potential toxic optic neuropathy among beedi rollers in selected rural areas of Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India, April-Sept 2016 (N = 365).
| Study variable | Possible TON |
Total | χ2 | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | ||||
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 277 (82.0%) |
61 (18.0%) |
338 (100.0%) |
0.8 | 0.443 |
| Male | 24 (88.9%) |
3 (11.1%) |
27 (100.0%) |
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| Tobacco intake | |||||
| No | 291 (83.6%) |
57 (16.4%) |
348 (100.0%) |
6.8 | 0.017 |
| Yes | 10 (58.8%) |
7 (41.2%) |
17 (100.0%) |
||
| Diabetes | |||||
| No |
298 (84.4%) |
55 (15.6%) |
353 (100.0%) |
28.3 | <0.001 |
| Yes | 3 (25.0%) |
9 (75.0%) |
12 (100.0%) |
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| Hypertension | |||||
| No | 277 (83.4%) |
55 (16.6%) |
332 (100.0%) |
2.38 | 0.123 |
| Yes | 24 (72.7%) |
9 (27.3%) |
33 (100.0%) |
||
|
History of tuberculosis |
|||||
| Absent | 300 (82.4%) |
64 (17.6%) |
364 (100.0%) |
0.2 | 1.0 |
| Present | 1 (100.0%) |
0 (0%) |
1 (100.0%) |
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