Causes and Associations of Amblyopia in a Population-Based Sample of 6-Year-Old Australian Children

To describe the prevalence of amblyopia and associated factors in a representative sample of 6-year-old Australian children.Logarithm of minimum angle of resolution visual acuity (VA) was measured in both eyes before and after pinhole correction, correcting cylindrical refractive components greater than 0.50 diopter (D), and with spectacles (if worn) in a population-based sample of 1741 schoolchildren. Retinal pathological abnormalities were...