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Penny Glass, MA
Washington, DC

Arch Ophthalmol. 1984;102(7):968-970.

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To the Editor.

—A retrospective study in 1980 by Hoyt¹ concerning the relationship between early visual experience and subsequent visual disorders compared fifty 5-year-old children whose eyes had been patched during treatment for neonatal jaundice with fifty 5-year-old children from the same intensive-care nursery whose eyes had not been patched. He reported no difference in the incidence of visual disorders between the two groups. However, a somewhat different analysis of his published data suggests otherwise.

Low birth weight has been associated with an increase in visual disorders.² In Hoyt's study, the birth weights of all the children, except two, were below 2,500 g, but the birth weights were dissimilar for the two groups (patched, = 2,030 g; nonpatched, = 1,840 g). It was possible that this bias toward heavier infants in the patched group might have confounded the effect of binocular occlusion. Therefore, I excluded the one nonpatched . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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