Change in peripheral refraction over time in Singapore Chinese children.

PURPOSE. Relative peripheral hyperopia has been associated with central myopia. This study was conducted to determine whether baseline relative peripheral hyperopia is associated with an increased risk of developing myopia or myopia progression in young Singapore Chinese children.

The relationship of body fatness indices and retinal vascular caliber in children.

Objective: To examine the association between body fatness indices and retinal vascular calibre in Singapore Chinese children.

Methods: We recruited 136 Singapore Chinese children aged 6-16 years from the STARS (The Strabismus, Amblyopia and Refractive Error Study in Singaporean Chinese Preschoolers) Family study in 2008-2010. Anthropometric measurements including weight, height and triceps skinfold (TSF) and right eye retinal photographs were performed.

Influence of blood pressure on retinal vascular caliber in young children.

Objective: Prior studies have reported that blood pressure (BP) has a significant influence on retinal vascular caliber both in adults and children aged 6 years and older. This study aimed to examine the association between BP and retinal vascular caliber in Singapore Chinese preschoolers 4 to 5 years of age.

Design: Population-based, cross-sectional study.

Peripheral refraction and refractive error in singapore chinese children.

Purpose: Peripheral hyperopia was hypothesized to stimulate axial elongation. This study describes peripheral refraction and its associations with central refractive error in young Singapore Chinese children.

Methods: Two hundred fifty children aged 40 months or older recruited from the Strabismus, Amblyopia, and Refractive Error in Young Singapore Children study were included in this analysis.

Family history, near work, outdoor activity, and myopia in Singapore Chinese preschool children.

Aims: To investigate the risk factors for myopia, including near work and outdoor activity, in Singapore Chinese preschool children.

Methods: A cross-sectional study, with disproportionate random sampling by 6-month age groups, of 3009 Singapore Chinese children aged 6-72 months was performed. Information on family history, near work and outdoor activity was obtained.

Prevalence of amblyopia and strabismus in young singaporean chinese children.

PURPOSE. To determine the prevalence of amblyopia and strabismus in young Singaporean Chinese children. METHODS.

Prevalence of refractive error in Singaporean Chinese children: the strabismus, amblyopia, and refractive error in young Singaporean Children (STARS) study.

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of refractive error types in Singaporean Chinese children aged 6 to 72 months.

Methods: The Strabismus, Amblyopia and Refractive Error in Singaporean Children (STARS) is a population-based study in southwest Singapore. Door-to-door recruitment of participants was used, with disproportionate random sampling in 6-month increments.

Comparison of shape-based analysis of retinal nerve fiber layer data obtained From OCT and GDx-VCC.

Purpose: To directly compare in 1 population: (1) the performance of Optical Coherence Tomograph (OCT) and GDx-Variable Corneal Compensator (VCC) when using Wavelet-Fourier Analysis (WFA) and Fast-Fourier Analysis (FFA), (2) the performance of these shape-based and standard metrics, and (3) the shape of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) temporal, superior, nasal, inferior, temporal (TSNIT) curves obtained by the 2 different devices.

Methods: RNFL estimates were obtained from 136 eyes of 136 individuals (73 healthy and 63 mild glaucoma). WFA and FFA with and without asymmetry measures were performed on the TSNIT RNFL estimates to identify glaucoma from healthy eyes.

Testability of vision and refraction in preschoolers: the strabismus, amblyopia, and refractive error study in singaporean children.

Purpose: To determine the testability of several vision and refraction tests in preschool-aged children.

Design: Population-based study of Chinese preschool-aged children in Singapore.

Methods: One thousand five hundred and forty-two Singaporean Chinese children aged 6 to 72 months were recruited through door-to-door screening of government-subsidized apartments in Singapore.

Heidelberg retinal tomography of optic disc and nerve fiber layer in singapore children: variations with disc tilt and refractive error.

Purpose: To evaluate the relationships in Singapore school children between optic nerve head parameters and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness images by using the Heidelberg Retinal Tomograph (HRT; Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany) and determining optic disc tilt and refractive error.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study involving 316 children 11 and 12 years of age (163 girls and 153 boys) selected randomly from one of the three schools in the Singapore Cohort study of Myopia. A total of 13 optic disc parameters were obtained from HRT images acquired before cycloplegia.

Application of shape-based analysis methods to OCT retinal nerve fiber layer data in glaucoma.

Purpose: (1) To evaluate the performance of shape-based analysis [wavelet-Fourier analysis (WFA) and fast Fourier analysis (FFA)] applied to retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness values obtained from the optical coherence tomograph (OCT) to discriminate healthy and glaucomatous eyes. (2) To compare the performance of the shape-based metrics to that of the standard OCT output measures (Inferior Average and Average Thickness).

Methods: RNFL values were obtained from 152 eyes of 152 individuals (83 healthy and 69 "mild"-stage perimetric glaucoma).