NEW YORK — The incidence of retinopathy of prematurity among at-risk infants has almost doubled during the past 2 decades and is greater in historically marginalized groups, according to a poster presented here.
“Increase in incidence may be driven by better screening and advances in neonatal care,” Anshul Bhatnagar and colleagues wrote in a poster at the American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting.
Data were gathered from the Kids’ Inpatient Database, the largest all-payer inpatient pediatric database in the U.S. Out of 23,187,689 infants born between 2003 and