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. 2020 Jan 20;20:31. doi: 10.1186/s12886-020-1316-6

Table 2.

Association with risk factors for the pediatric myopia and high myopia

Non-myopia (−0.50 < SE) Myopia (SE ≤ -0.5) OR (95% CI) P-value High myopia (SE ≤ -6.0) OR (95% CI) P-value
Number 340 643 68
Age (years) 1.27 (1.18, 1.37) <.001 1.44 (1.26, 1.64) <.001
 Mean (SD) 9.39 (0.31) 13.31 (0.16) 15.40 (0.30)
 Median (IQR) 7.71 (5.65, 11.30) 13.45 (10.39, 15.66) 15.36 (13.31, 16.65)
BMI (kg/m2) 1.04 (0.97, 1.12) 0.239 1.19 (1.04, 1.36) 0.009
 Mean (SD) 17.76 (0.28) 20.33 (0.21) 22.58 (0.61)
 Median (IQR) 16.83 (15.17, 19.53) 19.77 (17.37, 22.63) 21.80 (19.56, 24.72)
Parental myopia, n (%) 210 (61.76) 477 (74.18) 1.84 (1.27, 2.68) 0.002 56 (82.35) 3.48 (1.28, 9.46) 0.015
Near work, n (%)
  ≤ 1 h/D 60 (51.25) 54 (48.75) Reference 4 (5.88) Reference
 1–2 h/D 139 (38.56) 181 (61.44) 1.05 (0.6, 1.85) 0.856 17 (25.00) 0.98 (0.31, 3.09) 0.970
 3 h/D 68 (24.64) 145 (75.36) 1.53 (0.86, 2.7) 0.144 12 (17.65) 0.77 (0.18, 3.22) 0.717
 4 h/D ≤ 73 (18.85) 263 (81.15) 1.38 (0.77, 2.49) 0.282 35 (51.47) 1.12 (0.35, 3.56) 0.852
Accompanying disease, n (%)
 Atopic dermatitis 56 (16.47) 100 (15.55) 1.04 (0.72, 1.5) 0.838 156 (15.87) 0.62 (0.21, 1.9) 0.403
 Sinusitis 20 (5.88) 41 (6.38) 0.70 (0.28, 1.75) 0.441 61 (6.21) 0.63 (0.11, 3.44) 0.588

All data are expressed as n (%) for categorical variables or mean (SD), median (IQR) for continuous variables

SE spherical equivalent; OR odds ratio; CI confidence interval; SD standard deviation; IQR interquartile range; BMI body max index;

P-values are calculated using the multivariavle logistic regression