Tara Anne Dugel
Purpose:
To investigate the relationship between ROP and gender or socioeconomic status in the ROPE telescreening program.
Methods:
Prospectively collected data from the ROPE-SOS program was analyzed to determine the relationship of ROP with gender or socioeconomic status in this cohort.
Results:
45 SNCUs were covered within a 200 km radius of Coimbatore. 7,299 at risk babies were screened over a 2 year period. 3,928 (53.5%) at risk babies screened were male and 3,332 (45.7%) were female (p>0.05). There were no statistically significant differences in gender for patients when evaluating the category of ROP. Private versus government SNCUs were used as proxies for socioeconomic status. For all babies screened, a total of 609 (18.7%) were diagnosed and treated with ROP in private SNCUs versus 822 (20.4%) in government SNCUs (p>0.05).
Conclusions:
In the ROPE-SOS program there were no statistically significant differences in gender or socioeconomic status for babies screened for ROP.
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