Colour perception develops throughout childhood with increased risk of deficiencies in children born prematurely.
Acta Paediatr
; 113(2): 259-266, 2024 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
AIM:
To quantify the impact of prematurity on chromatic discrimination throughout childhood, from 2 to 15 years of age.METHODS:
We recruited two cohorts of children, as part of the TrackAI Project, an international project with seven different study sites a control group of full-term children with normal visual development and a group of children born prematurely. All children underwent a complete ophthalmological exam and an assessment of colour discrimination along the three colour axes deutan, protan and trytan using a DIVE device with eye tracking technology.RESULTS:
We enrolled a total of 1872 children (928 females and 944 males) with a mean age of 6.64 years. Out of them, 374 were children born prematurely and 1498 were full-term controls. Using data from all the children born at term, reference normative curves were plotted for colour discrimination in every colour axis. Pre-term children presented worse colour discrimination than full-term in the three colour axes (p < 0.001). Even after removing from the comparison, all pre-term children with any visual disorder colour discrimination outcomes remained significantly worse than those from full-term children.CONCLUSION:
While colour perception develops throughout the first years of life, children born pre-term face an increased risk for colour vision deficiencies.Palabras clave
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Asunto principal:
Defectos de la Visión Cromática
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Percepción de Color
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Acta Paediatr
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
España