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- Title
Visual impairment among children in Sweden with foreign‐born parents and natives: a national Swedish study.
- Authors
Wändell, Per; Li, Xinjun; Carlsson, Axel C.; Sundquist, Jan; Sundquist, Kristina
- Abstract
Blindness should be captured in the National Population Register, but other visual impairments could be missed. The most common co-morbidities, or causes of visual impairment, were optic nerve diseases, eye injuries, cerebral palsy and hearing loss. The outcome variables were based on the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision: visual impairment (H54), blindness (H54.0) and other degrees of visual impairment (H54.1-H54.9). Visual impairment is a common and serious condition, affecting 190 million people worldwide.1 Of these, 30 million are blind,1,2 and 14 million are children.3 The most common causes of childhood blindness globally are retinopathy of prematurity, cataracts and corneal opacity,3 and in high-income and middle-income countries cerebral visual impairment, optic nerve hypoplasia and inherited retinal disorders.3 This study estimates the risk of visual impairment, including blindness, in second-generation immigrant children and native Swedes under 18 years of age, using the Total Population Register and the National Patient Register.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; VISION disorders; PARENTS; HEARING impaired children; OPTIC nerve diseases; MEDICAL quality control; OPTIC nerve injuries
- Publication
Acta Paediatrica, 2022, Vol 111, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
0803-5253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/apa.16082