Table 5 Comparison of retinal thickness changes between different refractive errors (grouped by baseline examination).
From: Assessment of macular choroidal and retinal thickness: a cohort study in Tibetan healthy children
Macular layers | Myopia (n = 32) | Emmetropia (n = 805) | Hyperopia (n = 61) | F value | P value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||||
Full retina (μm) | Center | 31.73 | 22.41 | 32.41 | 31.65 | 34.78 | 27.91 | 0.18 | 0.84 |
Inner_T | − 7.39 | 8.65 | − 4.05 | 22.79 | 0.45 | 13.64 | 1.62 | 0.20 | |
Inner_S | − 6.16 | 9.02 | − 5.25 | 25.35 | 1.06 | 11.39 | 1.97 | 0.14 | |
Inner_N | 2.40 | 14.44 | 4.53 | 25.90 | 11.36 | 16.10 | 2.28 | 0.10 | |
Inner_I | − 14.66 | 18.43 | − 15.93 | 29.88 | − 12.31 | 18.29 | 0.46 | 0.63 | |
Outer_T | − 10.08 | 10.67 | − 9.83 | 23.31 | − 7.11 | 10.83 | 0.42 | 0.65 | |
Outer_S | − 10.62 | 15.57 | − 10.81 | 21.05 | − 6.25 | 7.72 | 1.44 | 0.24 | |
Outer_N | − 14.55 | 9.13 | − 12.15 | 23.13 | − 6.77 | 12.24 | 1.90 | 0.15 | |
Outer_I | 0.49 | 9.23 | 1.62 | 27.37 | 3.99 | 15.07 | 0.27 | 0.77 | |
Average | − 5.84 | 5.22 | − 6.07 | 19.54 | − 2.78 | 7.17 | 0.89 | 0.41 | |
GCIPL (μm) | Average | − 4.60 | 3.15 | − 5.29 | 5.48 | − 4.64 | 3.32 | 0.64 | 0.53 |
GCC (μm) | Average | 0.27 | 3.78 | 0.08 | 9.08 | 0.74 | 5.25 | 0.16 | 0.85 |