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Axial length growth and the risk of developing myopia in European children

Tideman, J. W. L., Polling, J. R., Vingerling, J. R., Jaddoe, V. W. V ., Williams, C., Guggenheim, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5164-340X and Klaver, C . C. W. 2018. Axial length growth and the risk of developing myopia in European children. Acta Ophthalmologica 96 (3) , pp. 301-309.

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Abstract

PURPOSE: To generate percentile curves of axial length (AL) for European children, which can be used to estimate the risk of myopia in adulthood. METHODS: A total of 12 386 participants from the population-based studies Generation R (Dutch children measured at both 6 and 9 years of age; N = 6934), the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) (British children 15 years of age; N = 2495) and the Rotterdam Study III (RS-III) (Dutch adults 57 years of age; N = 2957) contributed to this study. Axial length (AL) and corneal curvature data were available for all participants; objective cycloplegic refractive error was available only for the Dutch participants. We calculated a percentile score for each Dutch child at 6 and 9 years of age. RESULTS: Mean (SD) AL was 22.36 (0.75) mm at 6 years, 23.10 (0.84) mm at 9 years, 23.41 (0.86) mm at 15 years and 23.67 (1.26) at adulthood. Axial length (AL) differences after the age of 15 occurred only in the upper 50%, with the highest difference within the 95th percentile and above. A total of 354 children showed accelerated axial growth and increased by more than 10 percentiles from age 6 to 9 years; 162 of these children (45.8%) were myopic at 9 years of age, compared to 4.8% (85/1781) for the children whose AL did not increase by more than 10 percentiles. CONCLUSION: This study provides normative values for AL that can be used to monitor eye growth in European children. These results can help clinicians detect excessive eye growth at an early age, thereby facilitating decision-making with respect to interventions for preventing and/or controlling myopia.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN: 1755-375X
Funders: MRC, Wellcome Trust, NIHR
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 9 February 2018
Date of Acceptance: 20 August 2017
Last Modified: 06 May 2023 03:45
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/104197

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