Original ArticlesVisual loss associated with pediatric uveitis in english primary and referral centers
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Methods
All incident cases of uveitis with onset at less than 20 years of age were recorded in three district hospitals: the Prince Charles Eye Unit, Windsor, 1993 to 1994; Oxford Eye Hospital, 1995; and Ipswich Hospital, 1996 to 2001. The total incident population was 2.81 million younger, and the population aged younger than 16 was 557,012. Consecutive prevalent cases of uveitis with onset at age younger than 20 years of age at these hospitals were recruited in the same period.
Prevalent cases of
Results
The clinical and demographic characteristics of the complete cohort are shown in Table 1. On multivariate analysis, patients from referral hospitals were older, mean 12.6 years vs 6.1 years (Odds ratio [OR] 0.85, 0.78–0.93, P = .001); more likely to take systemic immunosuppression (OR, 16.1, 2.1–126.0, P = .008); more likely to have chronic anterior uveitis (OR, 4.93, 2.15–11.35, P = .001) and less likely to have acute anterior uveitis (OR, 0.08, 0.02–0.32, P = .001) compared with patients
Discussion
Pediatric uveitis is reported to be less common but more severe than that found in adults.1, 3, 5 Reported variations in the types of uveitis may be due not only to geographic differences but also to referral patterns and definitions of the pediatric age range. In this article we have investigated the differences in uveitis between hospital populations and age groups.
We have confirmed the low incidence of uveitis compared with adult populations. The earliest survey of uveitis7 found an annual
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