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We used simple and multiple regression analysis to establish the relationships between gender, age, refractive status, axial length, anterior chamber depth (ACD), corneal refractive power, white-to-white corneal diameter (WTW), height, and body weight. Age, body weight, height, and central corneal thickness were positively associated with corneal epithelial thickness, whereas WTW was negatively associated. The multiple regression analysis showed corneal epithelial thickness was affected by sex, body weight, WTW, and central corneal thickness (CCT), while stromal thickness was influenced by age, sex, and WTW. Both corneal epithelial and stromal thickness were significantly greater in male than in female children and were affected by growth. Neither corneal epithelial nor stromal thickness were associated with the severity of myopia, corneal refractive power, or axial length.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm9123849","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,27]],"date-time":"2020-11-27T02:13:51Z","timestamp":1606443231000},"page":"3849","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Effect of Gender, Age, and Ocular and Growth-Related Factors on Corneal Epithelial and Stromal Thickness in Children"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Wook Kyum","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"B &amp; VIIT Eye Center, Seoul 06615, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ik Hee","family":"Ryu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"B &amp; VIIT Eye Center, Seoul 06615, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jeongseo","family":"Yoo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju 26426, Gangwon-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5305-4430","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sun Woong","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju 26426, Gangwon-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"437","DOI":"10.1097\/00006324-199407000-00003","article-title":"Central and peripheral corneal thickness in keratoconus and normal patient groups","volume":"71","author":"Gromacki","year":"1994","journal-title":"Optom. 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