Purpose<\/p>\n
To describe trends in childhood certificate of visual impairment (CVI) registrations over a 10-year period (2010\u20132019) at Alder Hey Eye Clinic, a tertiary centre serving Merseyside and parts of Wales, and to compare findings with a previously published cohort (1997\u20132006).<\/p>\n
Methods<\/p>\n
We retrospectively reviewed records of children registered as sight impaired (SI) or severely sight impaired (SSI) between 2010 and 2019, extracting demographic and clinical data. We conducted a comparative analysis against the published report describing the 1997\u20132006 registered cohort.<\/p>\n
Results<\/p>\n
384 children were certified between 2010 and 2019, representing a 50% increase from 256 in 1997\u20132006. The median age at registration was 73.9 months (IQR 13\u2013106), comparable to the earlier cohort (76 months, range 1\u2013192). Gender distribution remained stable (57.8% vs. 58.2% male, P\u2009=\u20090.9). The proportion of White British children declined (80% vs. 94%, P\u2009<\u20090.05). Certification as SI increased from 48% to 62.8% (P\u2009<\u20090.05). The new cohort showed wide variation in visual acuity (VA) (median 1.0 logMAR, IQR 0.9\u20133.4). 52% had VA of 1.0 logMAR or worse, whereas 15% had VA\u2009\u2264\u20090.4 logMAR but qualified due to visual field or higher-order deficits. Of the earlier cohort, 47% had VA of 1.0 logMAR or worse. Cerebral visual impairment increased from 27% to 33.9% (P\u2009=\u20090.06), while other causes remained stable.<\/p>\n
Conclusions<\/p>\n
The number of registered children increased, particularly among those with milder impairment. Cerebral visual impairment and optic atrophy were leading causes of registration between 2010 and 2019, mirroring national trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Purpose To describe trends in childhood certificate of visual impairment (CVI) registrations over a 10-year period (2010\u20132019) at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4741,73014,3181,163,85,46,138877,6134,7304,138878,13583,24108],"class_list":["post-455496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-epidemiology","tag-eye-diseases","tag-general","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-laboratory-medicine","tag-medicine-public-health","tag-ophthalmology","tag-pharmaceutical-sciences-technology","tag-surgery","tag-surgical-oncology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}