Table 1.

Age and gender distributions of African American and Hispanic children in the Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study.

Age group in months	Hispanic Total n=3030 n (%)	African American Total n=2994 n (%)	All Total n=6024 n (%)
6 to 11	296 (10%)	277 (9%)	573 (10%)
12 to 23	543 (18%)	549 (18%)	1092 (18%)
24 to 35	572 (19%)	545 (18%)	1117 (19%)
36 to 47	532 (17%)	532 (18%)	1064 (18%)
48 to 59	543 (18%)	548 (18%)	1091 (18%)
60 to 72	544 (18%)	543 (18%)	1087 (18%)
Gender
Male	1557 (51%)	1514 (51%)	3071 (51%)
Female	1473 (49%)	1480 (49%)	2953 (49%)