Racial and Ethnic Differences in Myopia Progression in a Large, Diverse Cohort of Pediatric Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to characterize the differences in myopic progression in children by race/ethnicity and age.

Methods

Patients enrolled in Kaiser Permanente Southern California between 2011 and 2016 and between the ages of 4 and 11 years old with a documented refraction between -6 and -1 diopters (Ds) were included in this retrospective cohort study. Patients with a history of amblyopia, strabismus, retinopathy of prematurity, or prior ocular surgery were excluded from analyses. Patients' race/ethnicity and language information were used to create the following groups for analysis: white, Black, Hispanic, South Asian, East/Southeast Asian, Other Asian, and other/unknown. A growth curve analysis using linear mixed-effects modeling was used to trace longit

SUBMITTER: Luong TQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7671858 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature