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Refractive Error and Axial Length and Their Related Factors in 8-Year-Old Japanese Children: The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)
Purpose: To investigate the distribution of visual acuity, refractive error, and axial length in 8-year-old children who participated in an additional survey in Yamanashi Prefecture of the Japan Environmental Children’s Study (hereafter referred to as JECS-Y) conducted from 2019 to 2021. Participant...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10532322/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37762870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12185929 |
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author | Okabe, Natsuki Takahashi, Airi Shigemoto, Yumi Kogure, Chio Ooka, Tadao Shinohara, Ryoji Otawa, Sanae Kobayashi, Anna Horiuchi, Sayaka Kushima, Megumi Yamagata, Zentaro Kashiwagi, Kenji |
author_facet | Okabe, Natsuki Takahashi, Airi Shigemoto, Yumi Kogure, Chio Ooka, Tadao Shinohara, Ryoji Otawa, Sanae Kobayashi, Anna Horiuchi, Sayaka Kushima, Megumi Yamagata, Zentaro Kashiwagi, Kenji |
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description | Purpose: To investigate the distribution of visual acuity, refractive error, and axial length in 8-year-old children who participated in an additional survey in Yamanashi Prefecture of the Japan Environmental Children’s Study (hereafter referred to as JECS-Y) conducted from 2019 to 2021. Participants and Methods: Eight-year-old children who participated in the JECS-Y study were subjected to noncycloplegic measurements of refractive error and axial length. If the uncorrected visual acuity was less than 20/20, the best corrected visual acuity was evaluated in accordance with the autorefraction data. A questionnaire was administered regarding the parent’s history of eyeglass wear or contact lens use. Results: Among the 400 participating children, the rate of uncorrected visual acuity of 20/20 or better in both eyes was 70.4%. The mean equivalent spherical equivalent error for both eyes was −0.366 ± 1.016 D. The mean axial length was 23.08 ± 0.225 mm in all patients. The males showed significantly longer axial length than the females despite no differences in body height. There was a significant correlation between axial length, spherical refractive, and uncorrected visual acuity. The children of parents with a history of wearing eyeglasses or contact lenses showed a significantly more myopic equivalent refractive error than those without a history. Conclusions: This study clarified the current state of refractive error in 8-year-old children and the association of inheritance with refractive error. In addition, the axials were significantly longer in male patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-105323222023-09-28 Refractive Error and Axial Length and Their Related Factors in 8-Year-Old Japanese Children: The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Okabe, Natsuki Takahashi, Airi Shigemoto, Yumi Kogure, Chio Ooka, Tadao Shinohara, Ryoji Otawa, Sanae Kobayashi, Anna Horiuchi, Sayaka Kushima, Megumi Yamagata, Zentaro Kashiwagi, Kenji J Clin Med Article Purpose: To investigate the distribution of visual acuity, refractive error, and axial length in 8-year-old children who participated in an additional survey in Yamanashi Prefecture of the Japan Environmental Children’s Study (hereafter referred to as JECS-Y) conducted from 2019 to 2021. Participants and Methods: Eight-year-old children who participated in the JECS-Y study were subjected to noncycloplegic measurements of refractive error and axial length. If the uncorrected visual acuity was less than 20/20, the best corrected visual acuity was evaluated in accordance with the autorefraction data. A questionnaire was administered regarding the parent’s history of eyeglass wear or contact lens use. Results: Among the 400 participating children, the rate of uncorrected visual acuity of 20/20 or better in both eyes was 70.4%. The mean equivalent spherical equivalent error for both eyes was −0.366 ± 1.016 D. The mean axial length was 23.08 ± 0.225 mm in all patients. The males showed significantly longer axial length than the females despite no differences in body height. There was a significant correlation between axial length, spherical refractive, and uncorrected visual acuity. The children of parents with a history of wearing eyeglasses or contact lenses showed a significantly more myopic equivalent refractive error than those without a history. Conclusions: This study clarified the current state of refractive error in 8-year-old children and the association of inheritance with refractive error. In addition, the axials were significantly longer in male patients. MDPI 2023-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10532322/ /pubmed/37762870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12185929 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Okabe, Natsuki Takahashi, Airi Shigemoto, Yumi Kogure, Chio Ooka, Tadao Shinohara, Ryoji Otawa, Sanae Kobayashi, Anna Horiuchi, Sayaka Kushima, Megumi Yamagata, Zentaro Kashiwagi, Kenji Refractive Error and Axial Length and Their Related Factors in 8-Year-Old Japanese Children: The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) |
title | Refractive Error and Axial Length and Their Related Factors in 8-Year-Old Japanese Children: The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) |
title_full | Refractive Error and Axial Length and Their Related Factors in 8-Year-Old Japanese Children: The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) |
title_fullStr | Refractive Error and Axial Length and Their Related Factors in 8-Year-Old Japanese Children: The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) |
title_full_unstemmed | Refractive Error and Axial Length and Their Related Factors in 8-Year-Old Japanese Children: The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) |
title_short | Refractive Error and Axial Length and Their Related Factors in 8-Year-Old Japanese Children: The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) |
title_sort | refractive error and axial length and their related factors in 8-year-old japanese children: the yamanashi adjunct study of the japan environment and children’s study (jecs) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10532322/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37762870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12185929 |
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