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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 4.
Published in final edited form as: Asia Pac J Ophthalmol (Phila). 2022 Jan 18;11(1):52–58. doi: 10.1097/APO.0000000000000483

Table 1.

Prevalence of Each Type of Refractive Error by Racial/Ethnicity Group

African American (N=2072)
Prevalence (%)
(95% CI)		 American Indian (N=343)
Prevalence (%)
(95% CI)		 Asian (N = 145)
Prevalence (%)
(95% CI)		 Hispanic (N = 796)
Prevalence (%)
(95% CI)		 Non-Hispanic White (N=481)
Prevalence (%)
(95% CI)
Myopia 1.55 (0.99–2.11) 0.16 (0.00–0.47) 1.93 (0.00–4.20) 1.34 (0.71–1.97) 0.78 (0.00–1.60)
Hyperopia 6.79 (5.67–7.92) 8.89 (5.26–12.5) 5.47 (2.49–8.45) 6.87 (4.79–8.95) 11.9 (8.25–15.6)
Astigmatism 8.41 (7.02–9.80) 4.28 (2.11–6.44) 7.62 (3.82–11.4) 11.1 (8.41–13.8) 6.79 (3.90–9.68)
Anisometropia 4.34 (3.42–5.26) 3.25 (1.39–5.10) 2.65 (0.86–4.44) 7.13 (5.20–9.07) 5.48 (2.74–8.22)

CI indicates confidence interval.