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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2008 Dec 16;116(2):332–339. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.09.035

Table 1.

Percentage of eyes with astigmatism and high astigmatism at 6 and 9 months corrected age and at 2 and 3 years postnatal age.

Refractive status Treatment at high-risk prethreshold n/N* (%) Conventionally-managed high-risk eyes
Total conventionall y-managed high-risk eyes n/N* (%) Treatment at threshold n/N (%) Regressed no treatment n/N (%)
Astigmatism greater than or equal to 1.00 Diopters 6 months 92/283 (32.5%) 87/272 (32.0%) 49/172 (28.5%) 37/99 (37.4%)
9 months 117/304 (38.5%) 113/280 (40.4%) 66/172 (38.4%) 47/107 (43.9%)
2 years 107/281 (38.1%) 93/253 (36.8%) 59/155 (38.1%) 34/98 (34.7%)
3 years 116/268 (43.3%) 99/244 (40.6%) 65/150 (43.3%) 33/93 (35.5%)
Astigmatism greater than or equal to 2.00 Diopters 6 months 26/283 (9.2%) 30/272 (11.0%) 16/172 (9.3%) 14/99 (14.1%)
9 months 41/304 (13.5%) 44/280 (15.7%) 28/172 (16.3%) 16/107 (15.0%)
2 years 45/281 (16.0%) 31/253 (12.3%) 22/155 (14.2%) 9/98 (9.2%)
3 years 53/268 (19.8%) 31/244 (12.7%) 23/150 (15.3%) 8/93 (8.6%)
*

See Results Section for early treatment (ET) and conventional management (CM) eyes with unavailable refractive error data.