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. 2020 Sep 16;10:15189. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-72240-y

Table 2.

Latent growth mixture modelling results: the initial status (average class starting point for SER and AL) and slope (average change in SER and AL over each three year period) for the younger cohort and older cohorts.

Younger cohort
Class Initial status Slope
SER (D) SER (D)
Persistent high hyperopes  + 7.856 − 0.153
Persistent moderate hyperopes  + 4.193 − 0.053
Persistent emmetropes  + 1.068 − 0.197
Emerging myopes  + 0.209 −  1.230
AL (mm) AL (mm)
1 22.901 0.889
2 22.483 0.386
Older cohort
Class Initial status Slope
SER (D) SER (D)
Persistent high hyperopes + 7.722 − 0.079
Persistent moderate hyperopes  + 4.281  + 0.011
Persistent emmetropes  + 0.579  + 0.046
Low progressing myopes − 1.364 − 0.406
High progressing myopes − 3.884 − 0.545
AL (mm) AL (mm)
1 25.253 0.377
2 23.663 0.518
3 23.316 0.104
4 21.253 0.130