Refractive power of premature children at infancy and early childhood.
We evaluated the refraction of 198 children born prematurely with birth-weights of 2,000 g or less, without any ocular disease. Between the ages of 6 months to 3 1/2 years these children had a mild hypermetropia. The refractive error did not change between the ages of 6 months and 3 1/2 years. The refraction of the prematurely born children was similar to that found in children born at full term.
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D006956:Hyperopia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007223:Infant; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000175:diagnosis*