TY - JOUR T1 - At a glance JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology JO - Br J Ophthalmol SP - i LP - i DO - 10.1136/bjo.2010.189274 VL - 94 IS - 7 AU - Harminder S Dua AU - Arun D Singh Y1 - 2010/07/01 UR - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/94/7/i.abstract N2 - Arnarsson et al examined the age- and gender-specific prevalent and 5-year incident risk of developing exfoliation syndrome (XFS) in a population-based random sample of citizens 50 years and older. One thousand forty-five persons had baseline examination in 1996; 846 of the 958 survivors (88.2%) had a follow-up examination in 2001. Age, female gender, increased iris pigmentation, moderate use of alcohol and self-reported asthma were found to correlate significantly with prevalence risk of XFS at baseline. They also observed that food items that are possibly surrogates for antioxidative effect correlated with decreased risk of XFS. See page 831.Samarawickrama et al examined ethnic differences in optic nerve head and RNFL parameters between European Caucasian and East Asian children aged 6–12 years. Of 4118 children examined in the Sydney Childhood Eye Study, 3382 (82.1%) had OCT (Zeiss Stratus, Fast optic disc and RNFL scans) data suitable for analysis. After adjusting … ER -