Table 3 Rates of amblyogenic factors in low birthweight and full term children.
Authors | No | Inclusion criteria | Age at follow up | Strabismus | Anisometropia >1DS | Myopia | Hypermetropia >3DS |
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Darlow et al8 | 313 | BW<1500 g | 7 years | 22% | Not stated | 21% (any detected by photorefraction) | 18% |
Holmstrom et al18 | 260 | BW<1500 g | 3.5 years | 13.5% | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
Larsson et al11* | 213 | BW<1500 g | 10 years | Not stated | 8.9% | 15.1% (<0DS) | 4.2% |
217 | Full term | 0.9% | 11.1% (<0DS) | 0.9% | |||
O'Connor et al10,26 | 293 | BW <1701 g | 10–12 years | 20.1% | 9% | 22.4% (<0DS) | 6.6% |
169 | Full term | 3% | 8.9% (<0DS) |
*The Larsson paper is a follow up study of the Holmstrom study so represents the same children.