Population studies — myopia experience in Japan

Hosaka, Akio

doi:10.1111/j.1755-3768.1988.tb02659.x

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“…Myopia is a common refractive error especially in Asian countries undergoing rapid development [7][8][9]. Myopia prevalence could be as high as 95% in medical school students [10].…”

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The relationship between central corneal thickness and degree of myopia among Saudi adults

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“…Myopia is a common refractive error especially in Asian countries undergoing rapid development [7][8][9]. Myopia prevalence could be as high as 95% in medical school students [10].…”

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The relationship between central corneal thickness and degree of myopia among Saudi adults

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“…In addition to intra-ethnic variability, previous populationbased studies have revealed an inter-ethnic variability . It became evident that, particularly in East Asia and South East Asia, a marked myopic shift occurs in the younger generation [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

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Refractive error, ocular and general parameters and ophthalmic diseases. The Beijing Eye Study

You

Jonas

2009

Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol

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In the adult Chinese population, hyperopic subjects compared with myopic subjects were older, lived predominately in the rural regions, had a lower level of education, smoked more, and were more obese. In addition, the hyperopic subjects had a lower intraocular pressure, a higher best-corrected visual acuity, a shallower anterior chamber depth and narrower anterior chamber angle, lower amount of nuclear cataract, smaller beta zone of parapapillary atrophy, a lower prevalence of open-angle glaucoma, and a higher prevalence of age-related macular degeneration.

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“…It is the most prevalent eye defect in the world affecting about 41.6% of the United States of America's adult population (Vitale et al, 2009), and 50% to 80% of South Eastern Asians (Lin et al, 1988;Hosaka, 1988). Its prevalence is reported to be increasing in both developed and developing countries (Mutti and Zadnik, 1995;Hammond et al, 2001).…”

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Prevalence of Myopia amongst patients with refractive error in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana

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Lartey²,

Adjah³

2013

Jnl Sci Tech

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This paper sought to report on the prevalence of myopia and its distribution pattern among individuals who seek eye health in eye care facilities in Kumasi. In a retrospective cross sectional study, the two leading major public eye facilities (Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Kumasi South hospital) were purposively selected whilst simple random sampling method was used to select five of the private eye care facilities. In total, 6027 records of subjects with refractive errors who visited the eye facilities between January 2010 and December 2010 were reviewed. The results revealed that 54.12% of the patients records reviewed were myopic. Of the 3263 myopes, 75.45% were low myopes, 15.78% were moderate myopes and 8.77% were high myopes. The prevalence of myopia among the male study population was 58.68% and 50.31% among the female subjects. The study concludes that myopia is the most common refractive error that is presented for refraction in the eye facilities in Kumasi. More community based studies are required to determine the actual burden of myopia and to explore the gender bias in the larger population.

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Population studies — myopia experience in Japan

Cited by 58 publications

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The relationship between central corneal thickness and degree of myopia among Saudi adults

The relationship between central corneal thickness and degree of myopia among Saudi adults

Refractive error, ocular and general parameters and ophthalmic diseases. The Beijing Eye Study

Prevalence of Myopia amongst patients with refractive error in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana

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