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All patients aged &lt;18 years presented with lens opacity were included in the study. Traumatic cataract cases were excluded from the study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>SPSS version 22.0 International Business Machines, (Armonk, New York, Unites States of America, dated 8\/13\/13) used for statistical analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Among 379 eyes of 239 patients, 58.6% (140 patients) had bilateral cataracts. Male-to-female ratio was 1.38:1. We arrived at prevalence of 4.32 with 95% confidence interval (3.85, 4.77) of congenital cataract cases\/10,000 Omani Children. Most patients (54%) were from either Muscat (28.9%) or A\u2019Sharqiyah (25.1%). The median age of cataracts first noticed by parents was 3 months and the median age of presentation to the eye care unit was 15 months. Patients with positive family history significantly (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.007) presented with bilateral cataracts (75%). About 22.2% of the patients had associated systemic diseases. Among those with systemic association, 77.4% of cases had bilateral cataracts. About 35.4% of eyes had another ocular association. The most common ocular association was squint (11.1%). The most common cataract morphologies at presentation were 20.1% presenting with total lens opacities and 19.8% with posterior subcapsular\/posterior lenticonus.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A higher demographic distribution of pediatric cataracts was found in Muscat governorate. 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