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Why do poor children squint?
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From a birth cohort of 14 541 children in Avon, southwest England data on visual problems were available from 7825 children at the age of 7 years (C Williams and colleagues. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2008;92:959–64). The prevalence of manifest strabismus was 2.3%, of past or present amblyopia 3.6%, and of hypermetropia 4.8%. Convergent strabismus was associated with preterm birth and with a family history of hypermetropia or of strabismus/amblyopia. Divergent strabismus was related to maternal smoking in late pregnancy and intrauterine growth retardation. Amblyopia was related to maternal smoking and a family history of strabismus/amblyopia or parental hypermetropia. Children from the lowest occupational social class grouping were almost twice as likely to have hypermetropia as children from the highest social class.
An accompanying paper (M Majeed and colleagues. Ibid: 965–9) examines social inequities using data from the same study. Overall, 35.4% of the children had had contact
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