Prevalence of the Hudson-Stähli line of the cornea.
The prevalence of the corneal Hudson-Stähli line among 400 eyes was found to range from 5.3% of the eyes of patients aged 11-20 years to 100% of eyes of patients aged 81-90 years. In 87.3% of patients over 50 years of age corneas were affected; this percentage is considerably higher than previous estimates. Up to the age of 60 years it occurs more frequently in men than in women.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D003315:Cornea / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005293:Ferritins; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010858:Pigmentation
D005293:Ferritins