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 | |||||
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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 |