title: Comparison of Retinal Sensitivity between Professional Soccer Players and Non-athletes.
abstract: The purpose of the study was to compare the peripheral retinal sensitivity of the visual field between professional soccer players and age-gender matched non-athlete subjects. All participants underwent a complete eye evaluation. The visual field was evaluated with the achromatic program 60-4 from the Humphrey automated perimetry. The binocular visual field was created with the best location model. It was divided into 4 quadrants (left superior, right superior, left inferior, and right inferior) and compared between groups. The study group comprised 29 professional male football players and the control group comprised 26 age-matched male non-athletes. Mean age was 25.8±4.7 years in the study group and 26.3±5.1 for controls. The average of retina sensitivity in the left inferior and right inferior quadrants was higher in the study group (27.2±1.2 dB and 27.0±1.4 dB) as compared to controls (26.1±1.9 dB and 25.5±2.1 dB). (Student's t test, P=0.011 and P=0.004, respectively). In this small cohort, professional soccer players presented higher retina sensitivity in the inferior quadrants when compared to non-athletes.
authors.affiliation: Ophthalmology, Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: V B P
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Ophthalmology, Panamerican Institute of Vision, Goiania, Brazil.
authors.forename: V B P
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Ophthalmology, Panamerican Institute of Vision, Goiania, Brazil.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Ophthalmology, Santa Casa de Sao Paulo School of Medical Sciences, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kasahara
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D056352:Athletes; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology*; D012916:Soccer; D058609:Visual Field Tests; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult