In patients from 50 to 80 years of age who underwent cataract surgery, irregular corneal astigmatism, both the asymmetry and higher-order irregularity components, increased significantly with increasing age, whereas regular astigmatism induces an against-the-rule shift. The higher-order irregularity component persistently increased postoperatively, whereas the asymmetry component did not change significantly.
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