Mean cycloplegic refractive error in emmetropic adults The Tehran Eye Study / Error refractivo ciclopléjico medio en adultos emétropes: estudio ocular de Teherán
J. optom. (Internet)
; 17(3): [100512], jul.-sept2024. graf, tab
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ABSTRACT
Purpose:
In children under 20 years, refractive development targets a cycloplegic refractive error of +0.5 to +1.5D, while presbyopes over 40 years generally have non-cycloplegic errors of ≥ +1D. Some papers suggest these periods are separated by a period of myopic refractive error (i.e., ≤ 0.50D), but this remains unclear. Hence, this work investigates the mean cycloplegic refractive error in adults aged between 20 40 years.Methods:
In 2002 a cross-sectional study with stratified cluster sampling was performed on the population of Tehran, providing cycloplegic and non-cycloplegic refractive error data for the right eyes of 3,576 participants, aged 30.6 ± 18.6 years (range 186 years). After grouping these data into age groups of 5 years, the refractive error histogram of each group was fitted to a Bigaussian function. The mean of the central, emmetropized peak was used to estimate the mean refractive error without the influence of myopia.Results:
The mean cycloplegic refractive error at the emmetropized peak decreased from +1.10 ± 0.11D (95 % confidence interval) to +0.50 ± 0.04D before 20 years and remains stable at that value until the age of 50 years. The non-cycloplegic refractive error also sees a stable phase at 0.00 ± 0.04D between 15 45 years. After 45 50 years both cycloplegic and non-cycloplegic refractive error become more hypermetropic over time, +1.14 ± 0.12D at 75 years.Conclusions:
The cycloplegic refractive error in adults is about +0.50D between 20 50 years, disproving the existence of the myopic period at those ages.(AU)Key words
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06-national
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IBECS
Main subject:
Refractive Errors
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Vision, Ocular
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Vision Tests
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Emmetropia
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
J. optom. (Internet)
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article