Abstract
Presentation Description :
Children with amblyopia have fine and gross motor deficits. These deficits may increase the risk of obesity, particularly by affecting children's recreational physical actitivity. This presentation will discuss the overall hypothesis and present an analysis of public use data from the 1999–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Adolescents, aged 12 to 18, with amblyopia were more likely than those without amblyopia to have a high BMI (OR =1.56; 95% CI: 1.24-1.98). The associations between amblyopia and either high body fat percentage (OR = 1.20; 95% CI: 0.86,1.56), or low cardiovascular fitness (OR = 1.15; 95% CI: 0.83,1.57) were not statistically significant but were in the hypothesized direction. Amblyopia may be associated with high BMI during adolescence. Targeted interventions to reduce the risk of obesity among children with amblyopia could be important.
This abstract was presented at the 2024 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Seattle, WA, May 5-9, 2024.