Risk factors associated with childhood strabismus: the multi-ethnic pediatric eye disease and Baltimore pediatric eye disease studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate risk factors associated with esotropia or exotropia in infants and young children.

Design

Population-based cross-sectional prevalence study.

Participants

Population-based samples of 9970 children 6 to 72 months of age from California and Maryland.

Methods

Participants were preschool African-American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white children participating in the Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study and the Baltimore Eye Disease Study. Data were obtained by parental interview and ocular examination. Odd ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated to evaluate the association of demographic, behavioral, and clinical risk factors with esotropia and exotropia.

Main outcome measures

Odds ratios (ORs) for various risk factor

SUBMITTER: Cotter SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208120 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature