Research Article

Patient Race, Reported Problems in Using Glaucoma Medications, and Adherence

Table 4

Logistic regression predicting patient being 80% adherent or more according to Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS) adherence ( ).

Independent variablesAdherence
Odds ratio (95% CI)

Age1.02 (0.97, 1.07)
Years of education1.11 (0.94, 1.29)
Gender: female1.82 (0.61, 5.37)
Race: White3.53 (1.16, 10.76)*
No. of glaucoma medications0.63 (0.20, 1.96)
How long have had glaucoma1.22 (0.90, 1.66)
Total number of patient-reported problems0.93 (0.74, 1.17)

* ; CI: confidence interval.