{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,26]],"date-time":"2026-08-26T15:31:31Z","timestamp":1787758291084,"version":"build-2784847793"},"reference-count":13,"publisher":"Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)","issue":"9","content-domain":{"domain":["lww.com","ovid.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2022,9]]},"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Purpose:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The aim of this study was to determine the correlation of parental and childhood myopia among school children aged 5\u201316 years in North India.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study included a total of 1400 children aged 5\u201316 years in a district in North India. Visual acuity was measured using a Snellen\u2019s chart. Children with myopia after retinoscopy were worked up in detail in our institute and a history of parental myopia was taken.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 1400 students studying in class 5\u201310, aged between 5 and 16 years, were screened. A total of 487 students had myopia. Of the 487 myopes, 220 (45.2%) had parental myopia, of which 115 (30.1%) had myopia in both parents, 64 (19.3%) had mothers with myopia, and 41 (13.3%) had fathers with myopia. The prevalence of paternal (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.001) and maternal (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.002) myopia in myopes compared to parental myopia in emmetropes was found to be highly significant. There was a highly significant statistical correlation between maternal myopia and myopia in the child, when compared to the presence of myopia in both the parents (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.007).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>There was a statistically significant correlation between myopia in the parents and children, which was more significant in the mothers of the children.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/ijo.ijo_653_22","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,29]],"date-time":"2022-08-29T05:38:02Z","timestamp":1661751482000},"page":"3366-3368","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Correlation of parental and childhood myopia in children aged 5\u201316 years in North India"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"70","author":[{"given":"Manisha","family":"Rathi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology, Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Pt. 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