{"id":5864,"date":"2021-06-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children%e2%80%a0-aged-2-17-years-who-wear-glasses-or-contact-lenses-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/06\/11\/5864\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children\u2020 Aged 2\u201317 Years Who Wear Glasses or Contact Lenses, by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5866\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7023a4-f.gif\" alt=\"mm7023a4-f\" width=\"407\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, 25.3% of children aged 2\u201317 years wore glasses or contact lenses, and the percentage increased with age among both boys and girls.<\/p>\n<p>Among boys, 3% wore glasses among those aged 2\u20135 years, 20.0% among those aged 6\u201311 years, and 35.3% among those aged 12\u201317 years. Among girls, the corresponding percentages are 3.1, 26.4, and 48.2.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage was higher among girls than boys overall and among those aged 6\u201311 years and 12\u201317 years, but not in the youngest age group.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7023a4.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7023a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, 25.3% of children aged 2\u201317 years wore glasses or contact lenses, and the percentage increased with age among both boys and girls. Among boys, 3% wore glasses among those aged 2\u20135 years, 20.0% among those aged 6\u201311 years, and 35.3% among those aged 12\u201317 years. Among girls, the corresponding percentages are 3.1, 26.4,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}