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Ocular biometrics and uncorrected visual acuity for detecting myopia in Chinese school students

Scientific reports, 2022-11, Vol.12 (1), p.18644-18644, Article 18644 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Ocular biometrics and uncorrected visual acuity for detecting myopia in Chinese school students
  • Author: Zhao, Ethan ; Wang, Xinyi ; Zhang, Huiyan ; Zhao, Eric ; Wang, Jianyong ; Yang, Ying ; Gu, Fang ; Gu, Lei ; Huang, Jianyao ; Zhang, Ronghua ; Ying, Gui-Shuang ; Cui, Hongguang
  • Subjects: Acuity ; Adolescent ; Age ; Anterior chamber ; Asian students ; Biometrics ; Biometry ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; China - epidemiology ; Cornea ; Datasets ; Depth perception ; Epidemiology ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Mydriatics ; Myopia ; Myopia - diagnosis ; Myopia - epidemiology ; Refraction, Ocular ; Refractive Errors - diagnosis ; Sensitivity analysis ; Students ; Visual Acuity
  • Is Part Of: Scientific reports, 2022-11, Vol.12 (1), p.18644-18644, Article 18644
  • Description: The study is to evaluate the performance of ocular biometric measures and uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) for detecting myopia among Chinese students. Among 5- to 18-year-old Chinese students from two cities of China, trained eye-care professionals performed assessment of ocular biometrics (axial length (AL), corneal curvature radius (CR), anterior chamber depth) under noncycloplegic conditions using NIDEK Optical Biometer AL-Scan, distance visual acuity using retro-illuminated logMAR chart with tumbling-E optotypes, and cycloplegic refractive error using NIDEK autorefractor with administration of 0.5% tropicamide. Spherical equivalent (SER) in diopters (D) was calculated as sphere plus half cylinder, and myopia was defined as SER ≤ - 0.5 D. Performances of ocular biometrics and UCVA (individually and in combination) for detecting myopia were evaluated using sensitivity and specificity, predictive values, and area under ROC curve (AUC) in both development dataset and validation dataset. Among 3436 students (mean age 9.7 years, 51% female), the mean (SD) cycloplegic SER was - 0.20 (2.18) D, and 1269 (36.9%) had myopia. Cycloplegic SER was significantly correlated with AL (Pearson Correlation coefficient r = - 0.82), AL/CR ratio (r = - 0.90), and UCVA (r = 0.79), but was not correlated with CR (r = 0.02, p = 0.15). The AL/CR ratio detected myopia with AUC 0.963 (95% CI 0.957-0.969) and combination with UCVA improved the AUC to 0.976 (95% CI 0.971-0.981). Using age-specific AL/CR cutoff (> 3.00 for age < 10 years, > 3.06 for 10-14 years, > 3.08 for ≥ 15 years) as myopia positive, the sensitivity and specificity were 87.0% (95% CI 84.4-89.6%) and 87.8% (86.0-89.6%), respectively, in the development dataset and 86.4% (95% CI 83.7-89.1%) and 89.4% (95% CI 87.3-91.4%), respectively, in the validation dataset. Combining AL/CR and UCVA (worse than 20/32 for age < 10 years, and 20/25 for ≥ 10 years) provided 91.9% (95% CI 90.4-93.4%) sensitivity and 87.0% (95% CI 85.6-88.4%) specificity, positive value of 80.6% (95% CI 78.5-82.6%) and negative value of 94.8% (95% CI 93.8-95.8%). These results suggest that AL/CR ratio is highly correlated with cycloplegic refractive error and detects myopia with high sensitivity and specificity,  AL/CR ratio alone or in combination with UCVA can be used as a tool for myopia screening or for estimating myopia prevalence in large epidemiological studies with limited resources for cycloplegic refraction.
  • Publisher: England: Nature Publishing Group
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2045-2322
    EISSN: 2045-2322
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-23409-0
    PMID: 36333404
  • Source: MEDLINE
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