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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 27.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2013 May 19;120(10):2117–2124. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.03.001

Table 4.

Prevalence of Amblyopia and Type of Amblyopia in Non-Hispanic White and Asian Children in the Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study Stratified by Age (Months)

Any Amblyopia, Prevalence
% (n) (95% CI)
Unilateral Amblyopia, Prevalence % (n)
Bilateral Amblyopia,
Prevalence (n)
Anisometropic
Amblyopia
Strabismic
Amblyopia
Anisometropic
and Strabismic
Amblyopia
Deprivational
Amblyopia
Age (mos) NHW Asian NHW Asian NHW Asian NHW Asian NHW Asian NHW Asian
30–35 (NHW: n=87; Asian: n=84) 0.0 (0) (NA) 2.38 (2) (0.29–8.34) 0.00 (0) 1.19 (1) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 1.19 (1) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0)
36–47 (NHW: n=262; Asian: n=254) 0.76 (2) (0.09–2.73) 2.36 (6) (0.87–5.07) 0.38 (1) 1.57 (4) 0.38 (1) 0.79 (2) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0)
48–59 (NHW: n=265; Asian: n=282) 1.89 (5) (0.62–4.35) 1.77 (5) (0.58–4.09) 0.75 (2) 0.71 (2) 0.75 (2) 1.06 (3) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 0.38 (1) 0.00 (0)
60–72 (NHW: n=323; Asian: n=318) 3.10 (10) (1.49–5.62) 1.26 (4) (0.34–3.19) 1.24 (4) 0.63 (2) 1.24 (1) 0.00 (0) 1.24 (4) 0.63 (2) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (0) 1.31 (1) 0.00 (0)
Total (NHW: n=937; Asian: n=938) 1.81 (17) (1.06–2.89) 1.81 (17) (1.06–2.89) 0.75 (7) 0.96 (9) 0.43 (4) 0.53 (5) 0.43 (4) 0.21 (2) 0.00 (0) 0.11 (1) 0.21 (2) 0.00 (0)
P for trend 0.013 0.303

CI = confidence interval; NHW = non-Hispanic white.