Hybrid lenses – an update: Prescribing and fitting

Thomson, Phil

doi:10.12968/opti.2021.10.8732

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“…54 The relevance of these guidelines to myopia detection is considered further below. Some authors have criticised the UK system of vision screening at ages 4-5 years only, arguing for additional screening episodes at ages 7 and 11, 55 or one other screening intervention at 11 years of age. 56…”

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Worsening vision at age 4–5 in England post‐COVID: Evidence from a large database of vision screening data

Shah

Edgar

Evans

2023

Ophthalmic Physiologic Optic

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Myopia prevalence has increased in the UK at age 10-16y, but little is known about younger children. We hypothesise that if the 'myopia epidemic' is affecting young children, then there will be increasing rates of bilateral reduced unaided vision (V) at vision screenings of children 4-5 years of age. Methods: Retrospective anonymised data from computerised vision screening at age 4-5 years were analysed from serial cross-sectional data. Refractive error is not assessed in UK vision screening, so vision was investigated. Data were only included from schools that screened every year from 2015/16 to 2021/22. The criterion used was unaided monocular logMAR (automated letter-by-letter scoring) vision >0.20 in both the right and left eyes, so as to maximise the chances of detecting bilateral, moderate myopia rather than amblyopia. Results: Anonymised raw data were obtained for 359,634 screening episodes from 2075 schools. Once schools were excluded where data were not available for every year and data were cleaned, the final database comprised 110,076 episodes. The proportion (percentage and 95% CI) failing the criterion from 2015/16 to 2021/22 were 7.

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Section: Vision Screeningmentioning

confidence: 99%