Refractive errors and their relation to age and sex

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eISSN: 2077-9135 / ISSN: 1681-5491

Medical Channel Journal

2011, Volume 17, Issue 2 : 28-31

Research Article

Refractive errors and their relation to age and sex

Muhammad Ayoob

Zafar Dawood

Sajid Ali Mirza

Qurat Ul Ain

Department of Ophthalmology, Ziauddin University Hospital, Kemari, Karachi, Pakistan

Abstract

Objective: To see the prevalence of different refractive errors and their relation to age and sex in our community. Study design: Hospital based cross sectional study Place and duration of study: Out-patient department of Ziauddin University Hospital, from April 2009 to September 2009. Results: Total of 1824 patients were included in the study. Mean age was 28.12 ±14.174 years. Males were 776 (42.5 %) and 1048 (57.5%) were females. In both sex the most frequent refractive error was myopic astigmatism which was found in 740 (40.6%) patients with equal frequency in both sex and the second frequent refractive error was myopia in 570 (31.3%) of patients with males accounting for 28.4% (220 patients) and females 33.4 % (350 patients) (p-value 0.003). Myopia and myopic astigmatism was the most frequent refractive error in age group ranging from 16-30 years i.e. 39% and 51.1% respectively (p-value 0.001).

Keywords

Hypermetropia

Myopia

Refraction

Refractive error

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