Linearity of refractive change with age in childhood myopia progression.
Refractive records of young myopic patients were collected from six optometry practices. Statistical tests for linearity (F-test and statistical significance of the correlation coefficient) were applied to the myopic measurements made between 6 and 15 years of age. In 90 to 94% of these patients, refractive changes with time were linear. Refractive changes are greater when a patient is myopic rather than hyperopic or emmetropic.
College of Optometry, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012029:Refraction, Ocular