Epidemiology of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in commercially insured myopes in the United States

Abstract Myopia is a known risk factor for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD). Given global trends of increasing myopia, we aimed to determine the absolute risk (incidence rate) of RRD in non-myopes, myopes and high myopes in the United States over ten years. We performed a retrospective cohort...

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Main Authors: Cassie A. Ludwig, Daniel Vail, Ahmad Al-Moujahed, Natalia F. Callaway, Namrata Saroj, Andrew Moshfeghi, Darius M. Moshfeghi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35520-x