title: Further data on biometric correlations of central corneal thickness.
abstract: Central corneal thickness measured in 126 young men aged from 18-21 years was correlated to a number of ocular and other parameters. The frequency distribution was skewed towards the lower end, but the deviation could not be statistically supported. No correlation between corneal thickness and birth weight was found. Other characteristics not correlated in this material to corneal thickness were corneal astigmatism, refraction, visual acuity, optic disc and retinal abnormalities, red-green colour vision defects, ABO and rhesus blood-groups, EEG abnormalities, chromosomal abnormalities, hearing defects, ear abnormalities and quality of the hair. The findings in this study, although mainly of negative character, stress the relative independence of the central corneal thickness as a biometric parameter.
mesh_terms: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D001724:Birth Weight; D003315:Cornea / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System