title: Correlation of optical components with ocular refraction among teen-agers in Taipei.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Ko
mesh_terms: 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