Prevalence of Myopia in Africans Survey in Monrovia and Dar es Salaam

Av-Shalom, A.; Berson, David M.; Blumenthal, Michael; Gombos, George M.; Landau, Louis I.; Zauberman, H

doi:10.1016/0002-9394(67)93658-6

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“…The findings of previous authors are summarised in Table 3, which is adapted from Duke-Elder and Abrams (1970) and from Av-Shalom et al (1967). The large variation in the reported prevalence of myopia is at least partly due to the fact that various groups of subjects were investigated.…”

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Prevalence of refractive errors in adults over 40: a survey of 8102 eyes.

Hyams¹,

Pokotilo²,

Shkurko³

1977

British Journal of Ophthalmology

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SUMMARY The prevalence of refractive errors was studied in an adult rural population. Of the 8102 eyes studied 18-4% were myopic, 57-1 % were emmetropic, and 24-5 % were hypermetropic. Mild myopia was commoner in males than in females, and mild hypermetropia was commoner in females than in males. There was increasing hypermetropia with increasing age, probably due to unmasked, latent hypermetropia up to the age of 70 years and to a true shift toward hypermetropia after the age of 70 years.

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