PMID- 34427234 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210831 LR - 20220426 IS - 1998-3689 (Electronic) IS - 0301-4738 (Print) IS - 0301-4738 (Linking) VI - 69 IP - 9 DP - 2021 Sep TI - Demographics and clinical profile of patients with ocular Calotropis poisoning in India. PG - 2417-2420 LID - 10.4103/ijo.IJO_3434_20 [doi] AB - PURPOSE: To describe the clinical profile of patients with ocular Calotropis poisoning presenting to a multitier ophthalmology hospital network in India. METHODS: This cross-sectional hospital-based study included 2,047,360 new patients presenting between August 2010 and March 2020. Patients with a clinical diagnosis of Calotropis poisoning in at least one eye were included. The data were collected using an electronic medical record system. Descriptive statistics using mean +/- standard deviation and median with inter-quartile range (IQR) were used to elucidate the demographic data. Chi-square test was done for univariate analysis. RESULTS: Overall, 362 (0.018%) new patients were diagnosed with ocular Calotropis poisoning during the study period. The mean age of the patients was 44.10 +/- 18.61 years. The incidence rates were 0.013% in children and 0.018% in adults. Males were 57.46% and 87.29% had unilateral affliction. A significant number of patients presented from the rural geography (59.67%) and were from the higher socioeconomic class (72.65%). About a fourth of the patients were homemakers (23.48%) followed by agriculture workers (18.23%). Of the 408 affected eyes, 49.26% had mild visual impairment (<20/70) followed by moderate visual impairment (>20/70 to