Correlation of parental and childhood myopia in children aged 5–16 years in North India
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2022-09
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All India Ophthalmological Society
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the correlation of parental and childhood myopia among school children aged 5–16 years in North India. Methods: This study included a total of 1400 children aged 5–16 years in a district in North India. Visual acuity was measured using a Snellen’s chart. Children with myopia after retinoscopy were worked up in detail in our institute and a history of parental myopia was taken. Results: A total of 1400 students studying in class 5–10, aged between 5 and 16 years, were screened. A total of 487 students had myopia. Of the 487 myopes, 220 (45.2%) had parental myopia, of which 115 (30.1%) had myopia in both parents, 64 (19.3%) had mothers with myopia, and 41 (13.3%) had fathers with myopia. The prevalence of paternal (P = 0.001) and maternal (P = 0.002) myopia in myopes compared to parental myopia in emmetropes was found to be highly significant. There was a highly significant statistical correlation between maternal myopia and myopia in the child, when compared to the presence of myopia in both the parents (P = 0.007). Conclusion: There was a statistically significant correlation between myopia in the parents and children, which was more significant in the mothers of the children
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Childhood Myopia, hereditary myopia, visual acuity
Citation
Rathi Manisha, Chhabra Sargam, Sachdeva Sumit, Rustagi Inder M, Soni Dixit, Dhania Sweety. Correlation of parental and childhood myopia in children aged 5–16 years in North India. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology. 2022 Sep; 70(9): 3366-3368