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Meta-Analysis
. 2023 Feb 1;49(2):83-87.
doi: 10.1097/ICL.0000000000000948. Epub 2022 Oct 14.

Progression of Myopic Maculopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Motohiro Itoi  1 , Osamu Hieda, Natsuki Kusada, Takafumi Miyatani, Kentaro Kojima, Chie Sotozono
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Meta-Analysis

Progression of Myopic Maculopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Motohiro Itoi et al. Eye Contact Lens. .

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to elucidate the risk factors for the progression of myopic maculopathy (MM) based on severity.

Methods: In this study, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature published before December 2020 on the risk factors for the progression of MM in patients with pathologic myopia (PM) and high myopia (HM). Odds ratios (ORs) for different stages of myopic maculopathy categorized based on the International Meta-Analysis for PM (META-PM) classification were calculated using fixed and random effects models.

Results: A total of 12,070 affected eyes derived from 5 cohort studies were included in the systematic review. The presence of PM at baseline was found to be significantly associated with an increased risk of MM progression (pooled ORs: 7.17, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.29-15.6), and the greater category of MM at baseline was found to be significantly associated with an increased risk of MM progression, that is, eyes with MM category 3 or more compared with eyes with MM category 2 (pooled OR: 10.95, 95% CI: 6.07-19.76) and eyes with MM category 4 compared with eyes with MM category 3 (pooled ORs: 2.45, 95% CI: 0.28-21.37).

Conclusions: The findings in this systematic review and meta-analysis indicate that the progression of MM is associated with more severe MM at baseline.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.

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