ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2021
Real-world big data demonstrates prevalence trends and developmental patterns of myopia in China: a retrospective, multicenter study.
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- Survey on pattern of myopia in school children in Hangzhou after the COVID-19 pandemic: a school-based vision screening study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Significant myopic shift over time: Sixteen-year trends in overall refraction and age of myopia onset among Chinese children, with a focus on ages 4-6 years.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Factors associated with myopia in 19-year-old adult men in Korea between 2014 and 2020.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The change of myopic prevalence in children and adolescents before and after COVID-19 pandemic in Suqian, China.PloS one · 2022Article
- RNA-Seq Analysis Reveals an Essential Role of the Tyrosine Metabolic Pathway and Inflammation in Myopia-Induced Retinal Degeneration in Guinea Pigs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundMyopia is a complex disease caused by a combination of multiple pathogenic factors. Prevalence trends and developmental patterns of myopia exhibit substantial variability that cannot be clearly assessed using limited sample sizes. This study aims to determine the myopia prevalence over the past 60 years and trace the myopia development in a school-aged population using medical big data.
methodsThe refraction data from electronic medical records in eight hospitals in South China were collected from January 2005 to October 2018; including patients' year of birth, refraction status, and age at the exam. All optometry tests were performed in accordance with standard procedures by qualified senior optometrists. The cross-sectional datasets (individuals with a single examination) and longitudinal datasets (individuals with multiple examinations) were analyzed respectively. SAS statistical software was used to extract and statistically analyse all target data and to identify prevalence trends and developmental patterns related to myopia.
resultsIn total, 1,112,054 cross-sectional individual refraction records and 774,645 longitudinal records of 273,006 individuals were collected. The myopia prevalence significantly increased among individuals who were born after the 1960s and showed a steep rise until reaching a peak of 80% at the 1980s. Regarding developmental patterns, the cross-sectional data demonstrated that the myopia prevalence increased dramatically from 23.13% to 82.83% aging from 5 to 11, and the prevalence stabilized at the age of 20. The longitudinal data confirmed the results that the age of myopic onset was 7.47±1.67 years, the age of myopia stabilized at 17.14±2.61 years, and the degree of myopia stabilized at -4.35±3.81 D.
conclusionsThe medical big data used in this study demonstrated prevalence trends of myopia over the past 60 years and revealed developmental patterns in the onset, progression and stability of myopia in China.
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