Visual Impairment More Common in Minority Youth
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Race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are closely associated with visual impairment in adolescents in the United States, researchers have found. The study showed that adolescents who identified as Black, Mexican-American, of low-income, or as non-US citizens were two to three times more likely than White adolescents to report vision problems and to perform worse on objective tests of visual acuity.
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@fino The primary motivation behind trying to figure out exactly when these disparities emerge is that it gives us an opportunity to come up with ideas for interventions that can potentially address them before they before they manifest in a way that they are no longer treatable