New Study Finds Majority of Sports-Related Eye Injuries Happen to Kids

 New Study Finds Majority of Sports-Related Eye Injuries Happen to Kids

A new study conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found of the almost 30,000 sports-related eye injuries each year requiring an emergency room visit in the U.S., the majority happen to those under the age of 18.

After analyzing data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Survey from 2010 to 2013, researchers found over 120,000 patients had visited an ER with a sports-related injury. Of that number, 60 percent of the injured males and 67 percent of injured females were 18 or younger.

Researchers also found basketball and cycling were the two sports most likely to cause eye injuries. Among males, the riskiest sports for eye injuries were basketball (26 percent), baseball or softball (13 percent) and air guns (13 percent). For females, the riskiest sports were baseball or softball (19 percent), cycling (11 percent) and soccer (10 percent).

The study was recently published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

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Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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