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Is dietary vitamin A associated with myopia from adolescence to young adulthood?
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Abstract
Purpose: Potential links may exist between vitamin A intake and myopia via various pathways. In this study, we examined the association between dietary vitamin A intake during adolescence and myopia in early adulthood.Methods: We performed a prospective analysis utilizing data collected from participants of the Raine Study Gen2. Dietary vitamin A intake, determined via food frequency questionnaires completed at ages 14, 17, and 20 years, was compared with ophthalmic measurements collected at year 20. Low vitamin A levels were defined as Results: A total of 642 subjects were analyzed. Although those with adequate vitamin A intakes were less likely to be myopic (P = 0.03), this association became insignificant when adjusted for potential confounding factors in logistic regression modeling (odds ratio, 0.59; 95% confidence interval, 0.98–2.52; P = 0.06).Conclusions: There were no significant associations between total vitamin A intakes during adolescence and year 20 refractive errors after adjustment for confounders. Replication of this finding and further investigations are essential to rule out the suggestion that sufficient vitamin A intake during adolescence is associated with lower risk of myopia in early adulthood.Translational Relevance: Our findings are not definitive that ingesting foods high in vitamin A during childhood and adolescence does not have a role for preventing myopia in early adulthood.
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | Ng, FJ and Mackey, DA and O'Sullivan, TA and Oddy, WH and Yazar, S |
Keywords: | vitamin A, vitamin A deficiency, myopia, nearsightedness |
Journal or Publication Title: | Translational Vision Science & Technology |
Publisher: | Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology |
ISSN: | 2164-2591 |
DOI / ID Number: | 10.1167/tvst.9.6.29 |
Copyright Information: | Copyright 2020 the authors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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