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To describe the demographics, clinical presentation and risk-factors of allergic eye disease (AED) in children and adolescents presenting to a multi-tier ophthalmology hospital network in India.

This was a hospital-based cross-sectional study of 259,969 new patients (≤21 years of age) presenting between 2010 and 2018. Patients with a clinical diagnosis of AED were considered as cases. Data were collected using an electronic medical record system. Multiple logistic regression with odds ratios (OR) was performed to identify the high risk-factors of AED.

Overall, 26,309 (10.1%) children and adolescents were diagnosed with AED. The prevalence of AED was 0.3%, 6.6%, 18.3%, 15.8%, 8.1%, and 4.9% in infancy (<1 years), toddlerhood (1–2 years), early childhood (3–5 years), middle childhood (6–11 years), early adolescence (12–18 years) and late adolescence (18–21 years), respectively …