Prevalence and Risk Factors for Adult Cataract in the Jingan District of Shanghai

Table 4

Univariate and multivariable association analysis of risk factors for cataract.

Risk factors		Univariate analysis		After adjusting for age		Multivariate analysis
		OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Age		1.116	1.106–1.126			1.107	1.094–1.120
Gender (female)		0.973	0.823–1.143	1.130	0.940–1.358	1.121	0.891–1.411
Marital status	Never married	1		1		1
	Married	0.925	0.620–1.382	0.796	0.509–1.246	0.845	0.537–1.330
	Divorced	0.745	0.405–1.373	0.819	0.416–1.612	0.858	0.432–1.706
	Widowed	3.522	2.272–5.459	0.976	0.529–1.610	0.949	0.568–1.583
Education	Primary school or illiterate	1		1		1
	Secondary school	0.275	0.227–0.333	0.835	0.659–1.057	0.901	0.703–1.154
	University/college	0.363	0.279–0.471	0.722	0.537–0.972	0.850	0.613–1.179
Time of using computer	No	1		1		1
	1∼2 h/d	0.485	0.388–0.606	0.921	0.718–1.181	0.987	0.761–1.280
	3∼8 h/d	0.269	0.198–0.366	0.592	0.425–0.825	0.617	0.438–0.869
	>8 h/d	0.352	0.145–0.856	0.938	0.375–2.349	1.050	0.411–2.682
Time of using television	No	1		1		1
	1∼2 h/d	0.901	0.612–1.325	0.998	0.631–1.577	1.024	0.641–1.636
	3∼8 h/d	0.794	0.542–1.164	0.971	0.617–1.528	1.017	0.639–1.619
	>8 h/d	0.748	0.390–1.436	0.870	0.410–1.847	0.857	0.399–1.841
Time of using air conditioners	No	1		1		1
	1∼2 h/d	0.554	0.413–0.743	0.782	0.560–1.090	0.789	0.562–1.108
	3∼8 h/d	0.504	0.352–0.722	0.849	0.561–1.266	0.864	0.576–1.295
	>8 h/d	0.568	0.243–1.328	0.869	0.331–2.282	0.858	0.324–2.276
Hypertension		1.596	1.363–1.870	0.975	0.810–1.172	0.942	0.779–1.139
Diabetes		1.793	1.442–2.229	1.211	0.943–1.556	1.183	0.915–1.530
Smoking		0.754	0.606–0.938	1.089	0.850–1.394	1.164	0.866–1.566
Drinking		0.809	0.640–1.019	0.966	0.741–1.257	0.971	0.720–1.309
Refractive error		1.944	1.660–2.276	1.346	1.124–1.612	1.352	1.127–1.622
Ocular trauma		1.092	0.603–1.976	1.367	0.711–2.628	1.275	0.659–2.469
Contact lenses		0.684	0.071–6.580	4.394	0.452–42.754	5.664	0.555–57.773

OR: odds ratio; the values in bold indicate that the value is less than 0.05.