Table 1.
Demographics of 8–11 year old children with residual amblyopia, being currently treated with glasses alone (N=17), visually normal controls without glasses (N=48), and visually normal controls wearing glasses (N=19), along with one parent for each child.
| Residual amblyopia (n=17) N (%) |
Visually normal controls without
glasses (n=48) N (%) |
Visually normal controls wearing
glasses (n=19) N (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex of child | |||
| Female | 9 (53) | 26 (54) | 9 (47) |
| Median age | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| White | 13 (76) | 31 (65) | 11 (58) |
| Hispanic/Latino | 1 (6) | 2 (4) | 2 (11) |
| Black/African American | 2 (12) | 2 (4) | 0 (0) |
| Other | 1 (6) | 10 (21) | 5 (26) |
| More than one | 0 (0) | 2 (4) | 1 (0) |
| Not reported | 0 (0) | 1 (2) | 0 (0) |
| Visual acuity (logMAR): median (range) | |||
| Amblyopic Eye | 0.4 (0.2 to 1.2) | NA | NA |
| Fellow eye | 0.0 (−0.2 to 0.5) | NA | NA |
| Right Eye | NA | 0 (−0.2 to 0.1) | 0 (−0.1 to 0.1) |
| Refractive error spherical equivalent: median (range) | |||
| Amblyopic Eye | +4.50D (+0.88D to +9.00D) | NA | NA |
| Fellow eye | +1.63D (−1.50D to +7.88D) | NA | NA |
| Right Eye | NA | NA | +0.88D (−2.88D to +7.00D) |
| Cause of residual amblyopia | |||
| Anisometropic | 7 (41) | NA | NA |
| Strabismic | 1 (6) | NA | NA |
| Combined mechanism | 9 (53) | NA | NA |