Age and multivariate adjusted odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for associations between sex, age, occupation, smoking history, and pterygium, and presence of one or more of the six dry eye symptoms present often or all the time
| One or more of the six dry eye symptoms present often or all the time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude | Multivariate adjusted* | ||||
| Characteristic | No (%) | OR (95% CI) | p Value | OR (95% CI) | p Value |
| *From a multiple logistic regression model that simultaneously includes all factors present. | |||||
| Age | 1.02 (1.00 to 1.03) | <0.001 | 1.01 (0.99 to 1.01) | 0.07 | |
| Sex | |||||
| Men | 165 (32.7) | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| Women | 126 (22.8) | 0.6 (0.5 to 0.8) | <0.001 | 0.8 (0.6 to 1.2) | 0.38 |
| Cigarette smoking | |||||
| Non | 126 (22.1) | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| Ex | 18 (32.1) | 1.7 (0.9 to 3.1) | 0.09 | 1.2 (0.6 to 2.4) | 0.52 |
| Current | 147 (34.1) | 1.8 (1.4 to 2.4) | <0.001 | 1.5 (1.0 to 2.2) | 0.05 |
| Pterygium | |||||
| None | 185 (23.4) | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| Either eye | 106 (39.5) | 2.1 (1.6 to 2.9) | <0.001 | 1.9 (1.4 to 2.6) | <0.001 |
| Occupation | |||||
| Agriculture | 81 (30.7) | 1.0 | – | – | |
| Factory | 29 (30.5) | 1.0 (0.6 to 1.7) | 0.98 | ||
| Homemaker | 76 (21.0) | 0.6 (0.4 to 0.9) | 0.007 | ||
| Other | 104 (31.0) | 1.0 (0.7 to 1.5) | 0.95 | ||