nominally significantp = 0.01
The presence of epithelial defects was associated with a nominally significant reduction in temporal OST (β = −0.83, p = 0.01), while associations at other locations did not reach statistical significance ( p ≥ 0.41).
The presence of epithelial defects was associated with a nominally significant reduction in temporal OST (β = −0.83, p = 0.01), while associations at other locations did not reach statistical significance ( p ≥ 0.41).
In the linear mixed-effects model accounting for inter-eye correlation, age showed a consistent negative association with OST across most corneal locations, reaching nominal significance temporally (β = −0.02, p = 0.04), while trends were observed centrally and nasally that did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.09 and p = 0.06, respectively).