refractive errors
Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in the South Indian adult population: The Andhra Pradesh Eye disease study
... In conclusion, our study provides further epidemio- logic data on the prevalence of refractive errors in an adult Indian population in Asia. This adult population had a much higher prevalence of myopia ...
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Visual symptoms associated with refractive errors among Thangka artists of Kathmandu valley
... [27]. Salve has reported not only the high prevalence of symptoms (65.2%), but also a high level of job related complaints among jeweler manufacturing workers [28]. In the Wajuihian study, headache was the most prevalent ...
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Tecnis Symfony Intraocular Lens with a “Sweet Spot” for Tolerance to Postoperative Residual Refractive Errors
... residual refractive errors after cataract surgery [6] ...corneal refractive proce- dures, including the induction of higher-order aberrations (HOAs), and the secondary degradation of the retinal ...
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Prevalence of refractive errors in Mexican patients with keratoconus
... were: refractive correction, measures on the sphere, cylinder, and axis of refractive error; a refractive diagnosis; diagnosis of KCN, as previously described; ker- atometry values as corneal ...
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Retracted: Prevalence of refractive errors and corneal topographic changes in unilateral congenital ptosis vs the fellow eye: a clinical study
... Methods: This cross-sectional observational study involved 83 patients with unilateral congenital ptosis. Evaluation of ptosis done to classify it into mild, moderate and severe. Manual refraction and corneal topography ...
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Prevalence and associated risk factors of undercorrected refractive errors among people with diabetes in Shanghai
... a result, for a long time, the public health strategies for diabetic people in China were early detection and treat- ment of the ocular complications of diabetes. Recently, a study indicated that nearly two-thirds of ...
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The status of refractive errors in elementary school children in South Jeolla Province, South Korea
... The prevalence of myopia in Korean elementary school children increased with age. The present study reveals a considerably higher prevalence of refractive errors among elementary school children in South ...
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Perception of Refractive Errors and Impact of Corrective Treatments on Adult Patients Seen at a Tertiary Health Institution in South-South Nigeria
... Results: Of the 650 participants, 441 were females and 209 were males with a mean age of 44.48 years. Only 30% had previously heard the term ‘refractive error’ and were able to state the type of error they had. ...
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Characteristics of Refractive Errors in a Population of Adults in the Central Region of Poland
... uncorrected refractive error is the most common cause of visual impairment worldwide accounting for 43% of cases and an important cause of blindness ...Uncorrected refractive errors have also been ...
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Profile of refractive errors and amblyopia in 5-15 yrs of school going children at a Union territory tertiary health centre
... results were consistent with previously published hospital-based and population based study. Since no published community based study has been available from this union territory, this study hopes to serve as an initial ...
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Prevalence and types of refractive errors, and spectacle coverage in Sri Lankan adults: The Sri Lanka National survey of blindness and visual impairment
... as refractive error of minus ...rected refractive errors, including that due to myopia, and the extent to which the current need for spectacle correction is being ...of refractive error, and ...
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CHAKSHUSHYA EFFECT OF RASAYANA CHURNA ON REFRACTIVE ERRORS- A CASE STUDY .......
... As eye is one of the important sense organ of the body and cause of refractive errors is indicating the less strength of eye. As per Ayurveda, Atma and mind conjugates with chakshurendriya and eyes can ...
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Correlation analysis for school-age children's height and refractive errors
... The colinearity analysis showed that age was highly col- linear with eyes, gender and body height. Results from the likelihood ratio test showed gender (p = 0.369; >0.05) and eyes (p = 0.602; >0.05) had no ...
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Prevalence and associated risk factors of refractive errors among medical students in Western Odisha: a cross-sectional study
... of refractive errors especially myopia which was similar with our study finding where we found out that the prevalence of refractive error was more among students studying between 6-10 hrs than those ...
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An observational study to evaluate the prevalence and pattern of refractive errors in children aged 3-17 years in Mumbai, India
... 1.02:1. Refractive errors were most commonly found in the age group of 9-12 years, this might be an indicator of children able to perceive their problems and communicate about it after reaching a certain ...
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Effect of age, sex, and refractive errors on central corneal thickness measured by Oculus Pentacam<sup>®</sup>
... Background: Central corneal thickness (CCT) can be used to assess the corneal physiological condition as well as the pathological changes associated with ocular diseases. It has an influence on the measurement of ...
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Relationship Between Consanguineous Marriages and Incidence and Severity of Refractive Errors: A Cross-sectional Study
... the refractive errors of preschool-aged and adolescent ...equivalent refractive errors were noted with near-retinoscopy technique in young children and with the ARK-30 autorefractor in the ...
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<p>Refractive errors among Saudi college students and associated risk factors</p>
... prevalence of myopia and patterns of increase in preva- lence throughout different periods of time and for different age groups mostly covered Asian and Western countries. Unfortunately, there is scarcity in studies ...
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Refractive Errors and Spectacle Use Behavior among Medical Students in a Nigerian Medical School
... Those errors which required only cylindrical correction were considered as simple astigmatism which was in minus cylinder ...cylindrical errors were associated with minus or plus spherical errors ...
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An Analytical Study of Various Refractive Errors for Probable Ocular Associations
... of refractive errors: the principal focus is formed either in front or behind the ...the refractive system may be such that no single focus is formed, instead of that two focal lines are formed, in ...
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