ArticleGraefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie2019
Growth curves of myopia-related parameters to clinically monitor the refractive development in Chinese schoolchildren.
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- Myopia prediction: a systematic review.Eye (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
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- Combining visual acuity with refraction reduces overestimation of myopia prevalence in school screenings: an age-stratified analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
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- Reference values of spherical equivalent for predicting the onset and progression of myopia among children and adolescents in China.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Spherical Equivalent Percentile Curves in a Portuguese School-Aged Population.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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- Evaluating efficacy of 0.125% atropine using a myopia progression machine learning model.Japanese journal of ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Axial length normative data and percentile curves for schoolchildren in Taiwan: A tool for myopia monitoring.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2025Article
- Axial elongation as a marker to identify obvious myopic shift in non-myopic eyes of Chinese children.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeTo produce a clinical model for the prediction of myopia development based on the creation of percentile curves of axial length in school-aged children from Wuhan in central China.
methodsData of 12,554 children (6054 girls and 6500 boys) were collected and analyzed for the generation of the axial length growth curves. A second data set with 226 children and three yearly successive measurements was used to verify the predictive power of the axial length growth percentile curves. Percentile curves were calculated for both gender groups and four age groups (6, 9, 12, and 15 years). The second data set was used to verify the efficacy of identifying the refractive error of the children using the axial length curves, based on their spherical refractive error from the third visit.
resultsFrom 6 to 15 years of age, all percentiles showed a growth trend in axial length, except for the percentiles below the first quartile, which appear to stabilize after the age of 12 (- 0.10; 95%CI, - 0.36-0.16; P = 0.23 for girls; - 0.16; 95%CI, - 0.70-0.39; P = 0.34 for boys); however, the growth continued for the remaining 75% of cases. The second data set showed that the likelihood of suffering high myopia (spherical refractive error ≤- 5.00D) during adolescent years increased when axial length values were above the first quartile, for both genders.
conclusionsThe data from the current study provide a tool to observe the annual growth rates of axial length and can be considered as an approach to predict the refractive development at school ages.
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