Risk Factors for Strabismus and Amblyopia in Young Singapore Chinese Children

Abstract

This study highlights the importance of family history in strabismus, and the close associations between refractive error and strabismus with amblyopia. These factors play a more important role in young Singapore Chinese children.

Differences in Prevalence of Refractive Errors in Young Asian Males in Singapore between 1996–1997 and 2009–2010

“…20,29,30 In younger children, it is associated with poor visual function and is a significant risk factor for amblyopia. [31][32][33][34] Interestingly, our study also showed an increase in the prevalence of WTR astigmatism and a decrease in the prevalence of ATR astigmatism between the two cohorts of young men. WTR astigmatism is the predominant subtype in the younger population and was shown to be associated with increasing severity of myopia.…”

Profile of Amblyopia in School going (5-15 years) Children at State Level Referral Hospital in Uttarakhand

“…Another hospital based study done in Bharatpur, Nepal, the prevalence rate was 1.40% (Gopal Bhandari et al,) [21] [Table/ Fig-8]. In our study, the percentage of Amblyopia was 8.6%, which is higher as compared to past studies [4,14,17,[18][19][20][21]. It may be due to high literacy rate in the urban population, higher paediatric referrals from peripheral health centres and from visual screening programmes in schools.…”

“…In South-Asian region the Chinese studies showed prevalence rate which varies between 0.8% to 2.5% in different subsets of population done by (Andrey Chia et al, and Jing Fu et al,) respectively [18,19]. In a Nepalese hospital based study the prevalence was 1% [20].…”

Danish Rural Eye Study: the association of preschool vision screening with the prevalence of amblyopia

“…Multiple studies have found strabismus to be the leading cause of amblyopia (Friedman et al 2009;Pai et al 2011;Chia et al 2013). In our study, strabismus with or without anisometropia was found to be slightly less prevalent a cause as anisometropia without strabismus, accounting for 43.6% (24/55) and 45.5% (25/55) cases of amblyopia, respectively.…”