Smoking and strabismus
| Monday, November 4, 2024 |
| 10:40 AM - 10:50 AM |
| Panorama Rooms 2 & 3 |
Overview
Professor David Mackey
Speaker
Professor David Mackey
University of Western Australia
Smoking and strabismus
Abstract
Despite strabismus being identified as familial by Hippocrates, determining its genetic architecture has been difficult compared to most other eye diseases. Numerous genes have been identified for rarer syndromic forms of strabismus.
Environmental factors such as maternal smoking in pregnancy have been implicated in causing strabismus in some but not all studies. The per capita volume of strabismus procedures funded by Medicare has fallen in recent decades as have rates of maternal smoking.
Genetic factors contribute to the likelihood that a person will smoke and recent genetic research suggests children with strabismus will be carrying more of these smoking risk markers, presumably inherited from their mothers.
To prevent strabismus we need to continue to remind the public that strabismus is another risk from maternal smoking and all effort should be made to reduce maternal smoking in pregnancy.
Environmental factors such as maternal smoking in pregnancy have been implicated in causing strabismus in some but not all studies. The per capita volume of strabismus procedures funded by Medicare has fallen in recent decades as have rates of maternal smoking.
Genetic factors contribute to the likelihood that a person will smoke and recent genetic research suggests children with strabismus will be carrying more of these smoking risk markers, presumably inherited from their mothers.
To prevent strabismus we need to continue to remind the public that strabismus is another risk from maternal smoking and all effort should be made to reduce maternal smoking in pregnancy.
Biography
David Mackey AO MD FRANZCO FAHMS FARVO is Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Western Australia. He has an extensive track record in the genetics and epidemiology of eye disease having worked with many large population cohorts in Australia, including the Glaucoma Inheritance Study in Tasmania, the Twins Eyes Study, the Raine Study and the Busselton Healthy Aging Study. He is councillor and WA chair of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences; councillor and chair of the RANZCO Professors group; and Vice President of the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology. He has over 500 peer reviewed publications and an H index of 96.
