TY - JOUR
T1 - Female predominance in intermittent exotropia
AU - Nusz, Kevin J.
AU - Mohney, Brian G.
AU - Diehl, Nancy N.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported in part by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc, New York, New York.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - PURPOSE: To evaluate gender differences among children diagnosed with intermittent exotropia. DESIGN: Retrospective, population-based cohort study. METHODS: The medical records of all Olmsted County, Minnesota residents younger than 19 years diagnosed with intermittent exotropia from January 1, 1975, through December 31, 1994, were reviewed. RESULTS: One hundred eighteen (64.1%) of the 184 study patients were girls with an age-adjusted incidence rate of 38.3 (95% CI: 31.4-45.2) per 100,000 compared to 20.8 (95% CI: 15.7-25.8) per 100,000 for boys (P < .0001). There were no significant differences between girls and boys in their family history of strabismus, birth weight, prevalence of prematurity, age at diagnosis and surgery, refractive error, and initial angle of deviation. CONCLUSIONS: Intermittent exotropia was nearly twice as common in girls compared with boys in this defined population. There were, however, no significant historical or clinical differences between the genders.
AB - PURPOSE: To evaluate gender differences among children diagnosed with intermittent exotropia. DESIGN: Retrospective, population-based cohort study. METHODS: The medical records of all Olmsted County, Minnesota residents younger than 19 years diagnosed with intermittent exotropia from January 1, 1975, through December 31, 1994, were reviewed. RESULTS: One hundred eighteen (64.1%) of the 184 study patients were girls with an age-adjusted incidence rate of 38.3 (95% CI: 31.4-45.2) per 100,000 compared to 20.8 (95% CI: 15.7-25.8) per 100,000 for boys (P < .0001). There were no significant differences between girls and boys in their family history of strabismus, birth weight, prevalence of prematurity, age at diagnosis and surgery, refractive error, and initial angle of deviation. CONCLUSIONS: Intermittent exotropia was nearly twice as common in girls compared with boys in this defined population. There were, however, no significant historical or clinical differences between the genders.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajo.2005.03.026
DO - 10.1016/j.ajo.2005.03.026
M3 - Article
C2 - 16139014
AN - SCOPUS:24044446222
SN - 0002-9394
VL - 140
SP - 546
EP - 547
JO - American journal of ophthalmology
JF - American journal of ophthalmology
IS - 3
ER -