Risk factors for decreased visual acuity in preschool children: the multi-ethnic pediatric eye disease and Baltimore pediatric eye disease studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate risk factors associated with unilateral or bilateral decreased visual acuity (VA) in preschool children.

Design

Population-based, cross-sectional prevalence study.

Participants

Population-based samples of 6504 children ages 30 to 72 months from California and Maryland.

Methods

Participants were preschool African-American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white children from Los Angeles, California, and Baltimore, Maryland. Data were obtained by a parental interview and a detailed ocular examination. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate the independent associations between demographic, behavioral, and clinical risk factors with unilateral and bilateral decreased VA.

Main outcome measures

Odds ratios (ORs) for various risk fa

SUBMITTER: Tarczy-Hornoch K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208077 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature