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Is dietary vitamin A associated with myopia from adolescence to young adulthood?
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Ng, FJ and Mackey, DA and O'Sullivan, TA and Oddy, WH and Yazar, S, Is dietary vitamin A associated with myopia from adolescence to young adulthood?, Translational Vision Science & Technology, 9, (6) Article 29. ISSN 2164-2591 (2020) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
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 <600 μg/day. Regression models were used to adjust for ocular sun exposure level, educational level, and parental myopia as potential confounders.
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 Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | vitamin A, vitamin A deficiency, myopia, nearsightedness |
| Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Nutrition and dietetics |
| Research Field: | Nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Public health (excl. specific population health) |
| Objective Field: | Nutrition |
| UTAS Author: | Oddy, WH (Professor Wendy Oddy) |
| ID Code: | 140395 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 5 |
| Deposited By: | Menzies Institute for Medical Research |
| Deposited On: | 2020-08-13 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-08-29 |
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