Table 5.

Comparisons between cases of different changes of axial length

	Decreased AL	Increased AL	P
Gender	2 M/7F	24 M/40F	0.335*
Parental myopia(1/2/3)	7/2/0	41/8/15	0.099*
Baseline age (years)	11.89 ± 1.90	10.00 ± 1.60	0.007†
Baseline SE (D)	−4.33 ± 0.85	−3.06 ± 1.15	0.002†
Baseline corneal power (D)	43.86 ± 1.19	42.96 ± 1.11	0.028‡
Baseline CCT (μm)	520.78 ± 30.94	536.30 ± 30.73	0.161‡
Baseline ACD (mm)	3.76 ± 0.19	3.69 ± 0.19	0.364†
Baseline AL (mm)	24.86 ± 0.66	24.86 ± 0.68	0.995‡
Change of AL (mm)	−0.06 ± 0.04	0.22 ± 0.15	<0.001†

SE Spherical equivalent, D Diopter, CCT Central corneal thickness, ACD Anterior chamber depth, AL Axial length

* Chi-square test

†Mann-Whitney U test

‡One-way ANOVA