Table 5.

Correlation between the meibomian gland characteristics in meibography and other factors in KC patients.

	Gland distortion		Gland shortening		Gland dropout
	r	p	r	p	r	p
Age	0.12	0.92	0.16	0.87	0.22	0.82
KC stage	0.21	0.45	0.42	0.64	0.22	0.45
OSDI	0.23	0.34	0.33	0.43	0.31	0.53
TBUT	0.22	0.05	0.18	0.04	0.24	0.05
Schirmer test	0.21	0.03	0.19	0.032	0.22	0.05

KC: keratoconus; OSDI: Ocular Surface Disease Index; TBUT: tear breakup time.