title: Refraction and refractive errors in an elderly population.
abstract: The data for this paper were collected during a two-year study of the elderly in the market town of Melton Mowbray. The randomly selected subjects, aged 76 years of age and older, were found to be on average +1.33 D hypermetropic and the average cylinder power was 0.82 D. The mean refractive error was found to be +1.5 D with 0.5 negative cylinder at between 85 and 90 degrees. Of all the subjects, 30 per cent had significant anisometropia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Lavery
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology