The vision-related antioxidants intake survey of elementary school children in central Taiwan

• Main Authors: Li-Ching, 周莉菁
• Other Authors: Han-Hsin Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13654476057979042772

碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 營養學系碩士班 === 99 === Background: In Taiwan, is prevalence of high myopia. The prevalence of high myopia in Taiwan is much higher than in other East Asian countries, Europe and America, and complications of high myopia, such as the retina detachment, related macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts can cause visual impairment or blindness, with aging, the eye-related complications will lead to the social medical burden, deserves attention. Antioxidants in a number of studies have been linked to macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts are related directly or indirectly, to improve or delay the complications of myopia. The main purpose of this study is to explore elementary school students antioxidant intake of more food, will it affect the vision and wheelbase changes. Methods: In this study, the middle of a small country conducted a questionnaire survey, at the same time position, depending on the force measurement, refraction and other eye examination related measurements, and the exclusion of systemic diseases with eye disease related to children. Finally, the number of cases recorded for 563 people, 290 boys, 273 girls. Analysis for the questionnaire, including the rate of myopia school parents, students taking the vision-related drugs and health food status, students with a weekly frequency of intake of dietary antioxidant-related analysis of types of food, drinks and food intake of school children every day kind of analysis, various types of antioxidant foods and wheelbase with the vision analysis, vision and children with various types of antioxidant foods wheelbase of correlation, the daily diet of children is projected vision of the multiple regression analysis. Results: Left eye showed a positive correlation with BMI wheelbase r: 0.118 (p <0.01). Right eye vision and the daily intake of red meat, a negative correlation r: -0.084 (p <0.05), that the deeper the degree of the right eye (myopia trend), the daily intake of more red meat. Visual acuity and frequency of weekly intake of grapes, become to a positive correlation r: 0.132 (p <0.01), that the deeper the degree of the right eye (myopia trend), grape intake frequency the less. Daily intake of red meat and daily potation of children is projected vision, multiple correlation coefficient of 0.123, joint vision of children is projected amount of 1.20% of the variance. Weekly frequency of intake of children is projected vision of grape multiple regression analysis, multiple correlation coefficient of 0.140, this variable can predict children&apos;&apos;s vision measured 1.80% of variance. Conclusion: Increased intake of antioxidant foods, especially grapes and kiwi / strawberry, is to reduce the likelihood of myopia, potation and red meat intake and intake of grapes predicted the development of myopia in children.