ArticleCureus2026
Assessing the Prevalence and Determinants of Retinopathy of Prematurity in King Saud Medical City, Saudi Arabia.
Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to examine the incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of preterm infants diagnosed with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).
methodsA retrospective cohort study was conducted involving infants with birth weight (BW) ≤1500 g or gestational age (GA) ≤32 weeks admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit at King Saud Medical City (KSMC) from December 2019 to December 2023.
results593 infants were recruited; among them, 392 had available data. Of these, 93 (23.7%) infants had ROP, of which 17 (18.3%) were stage 3. The mean BW of infants diagnosed with ROP was 1265.4±324.1 g, while the mean GA at birth was 29.6±2.45 weeks. Significant correlation was found between ROP occurrence and young GA at birth, low BW, low Apgar score at 1 and 10 minutes, and long duration of oxygen therapy. After a medical records review, no subject had blindness.
conclusionThe prevalence of ROP in this study is close to that reported in the region. Low BW and young GA were the most significant risk factors in the city. Controlling the amount and duration of oxygen therapy to the minimum necessary seems advisable.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.