Correlation of optical components with ocular refraction among teen-agers in Taipei.
From 2 senior-high and 2 vocational schools in Taipei, 3251 children with age 16-19 were randomly selected to study the relationship between ocular refraction and its main optical components, corneal curvature and axial length. While the corneal curvature was found to play only a minor role in the determination of ocular refraction, the measurements of axial length parallelled the degree of myopia (r = 0.74). A two-years' longitudinal study of additional 411 children from one junior-high school (age 13 through 15) further pointed to the importance of axial length in the production and progression of myopia.
Lin
L L
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Department of Ophthalmology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei.
Hung
L F
LF
Shih
Y F
YF
Hung
P T
PT
Ko
L S
LS
D000293:Adolescent; D003315:Cornea / Q000473:pathology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005123:Eye / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000209:etiology*; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D013624:Taiwan