Furthermore, among the highly myopic patients, those with anxiety (total anxiety score ≥ 7) also had higher ratios of monocytes (7.77 ± 2.15% vs 4.16 ± 1.10%, respectively, P = 0.0032) and CD14+/CD68+ monocytes (7.71 ± 2.12% vs 3.74% ± 1.65%, respectively, P = 0.0064) than those with no anxiety (Fig. 1d). This evidence concerns the gene CD68 and Anxiety.