Could screening for amblyopia be better targeted?
Amblyopia doesn’t seem to affect educational, professional, social, or health outcomes. Rahi and colleagues (p 820) used data from the 1958 British birth cohort, which included about 400 people with amblyopia, to assess the effect that the condition had had on their lives over four decades. Compared with over 8000 people without amblyopia from the same cohort, people with amblyopia do as well in education and occupation, behaviour and social functioning, and had similar health outcomes. The authors say that screening may be better targeted at patients with moderate or severe amblyopia than at whole populations.
