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Clinical Study

Anthropometry, Amplitude of Accommodation, and Spherical Equivalent Refractive Error in a Nigerian Population

Table 4

Pearson product moment correlation coefficient between measured variables.


	WT (kg)	HT (m)	BMI (kgm⁻²)	AA_PUB(D)	AA_MLB (D)	SEQ (D)

Age (years)	0.52 (<0.0001)	0.31 (<0.0001)	0.32 (<0.0001)	−0.84 (<0.0001)	−0.81 (<0.0001)	0.09 (0.22)
Weight (kg)		0.55 (<0.0001)	0.66 (<0.0001)	−0.48 (<0.0001)	−0.48 (<0.0001)	−0.09 (0.23)
Height (m)			−0.24 (<0.0001)	−0.34 (<0.0001)	−0.34 (<0.0001)	0.01 (0.87)
BMI (kgm⁻²)				−0.27 (<0.0001)	−0.25 (<0.0001)	0.11 (0.13)
AA_PUB (D)					0.88 (<0.0001)	−0.08 (0.28)
AA_MLB(D)						−0.05 (0.38)

First numbers are correlation coefficients; second numbers are P values; significant correlation coefficients are shown in bold; SEQ: spherical equivalent refractive error; BMI: Body mass index; AA_PUB: amplitude of accommodation (push-up to blur); AA_MLB: amplitude of accommodation (minus-lens to blur).