Epidemiology of the refractive errors in association with the anthropometric characteristics and ocular dimensions of the students in adolescence
Abstract
Purpose: To investigate the prevalence, distribution, demographic, anthropometric and biometry associations of refractive errors in a sample of adolescent pupils in Thessaloniki, Greece. Methods: 709 pupils answered in a detail questionnaire about near work activity, educational experiences, parental myopia and family demographics. Then, they had a physical (height, weight, periphery of the head) and ophthalmological examination (refraction and biometry) by the same ophthalmologist. Results: The prevalence of myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism and anisometropia was 50,92%, 4,65%, 31,17% and 10,6% respectively. Myopia appears particularly strong statistical association with neat-work and school achievement, the myopia of mother and brothers (a weaker one with the myopia of father), with height, weight and BMI. Myopia also, has a particular strong statistic relation with the axial and vitreous cavity length, a statistical one with the anterior chamber depth and lens thickness, but only a ...
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