Chen-Wei Pan1, Deng-Juan Qian1, Hui Zhu2, Jia-Jia Yu3, Hu Liu4. 1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China. 2. Department of Ophthalmology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, China. 3. Department of Ophthalmology, Wuxi No.2 People's Hospital, Wuxi, China. 4. Department of Ophthalmology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, China. liuhu66@163.com.
Abstract
PURPOSE: We aimed to examine the association between the 5-min Apgar score and reduced vision in children 3 to 6 years of age. METHODS: A total of 5834 preschool children aged 3 to 6 years participated in this school-based eye survey. Reduced vision was defined as unaided distance vision of 6/12 or worse in the better-seeing eye. The 5-min Apgar scores of the participants were retrieved from medical records. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of reduced vision in this population was 6.63 % (95 % confidence interval [CI] 5.99-7.27). In multivariate analysis, the presence of reduced vision was associated with a low 5-min Apgar score at birth (<7 vs. 7-10; odds ratio [OR] = 1.66, 95 % CI 1.48-3.05) after adjusting for age, gender, parental history of myopia, maternal age, gestational age, and birth weight. In addition, both myopia and amblyopia were associated with Apgar scores of less than 7 in multivariate analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Children with 5-min Apgar scores of less than 7 were more likely to have reduced vision at the age of 3 to 6 years.
PURPOSE: We aimed to examine the association between the 5-min Apgar score and reduced vision in children 3 to 6 years of age. METHODS: A total of 5834 preschool children aged 3 to 6 years participated in this school-based eye survey. Reduced vision was defined as unaided distance vision of 6/12 or worse in the better-seeing eye. The 5-min Apgar scores of the participants were retrieved from medical records. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of reduced vision in this population was 6.63 % (95 % confidence interval [CI] 5.99-7.27). In multivariate analysis, the presence of reduced vision was associated with a low 5-min Apgar score at birth (<7 vs. 7-10; odds ratio [OR] = 1.66, 95 % CI 1.48-3.05) after adjusting for age, gender, parental history of myopia, maternal age, gestational age, and birth weight. In addition, both myopia and amblyopia were associated with Apgar scores of less than 7 in multivariate analyses. CONCLUSIONS:Children with 5-min Apgar scores of less than 7 were more likely to have reduced vision at the age of 3 to 6 years.
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