title: Ocular dimensions and refractive power in Malay and Melanesian children.
abstract: A cross-sectional study of 753 Melanesian children in Vanuatu and 904 Malay children in Malaysia included measurement of refractive error and ocular dimensions. All children were between the ages of 6 and 17 years. The prevalence of myopia in Malay children was 4.3% at 7-8 years and 25.6% at 15-16 years with corresponding figures of 0.8% and 4.3% for Melanesian children. The range of refractive error was greater for Malay children at all ages. Mean refractive error for Malay children showed greater hypermetropia, together with a shorter axial length at 6 years, than Melanesian children, but at 17 years the situation reversed and Malay children had more myopia and longer axial lengths than their Melanesian counterparts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Optometry, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Garner
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Grosvenor
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mohidin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000886:Anthropometry; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005123:Eye / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006956:Hyperopia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008296:Malaysia; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000473:pathology; D009514:Vanuatu