Article

Distribution of ametropia among military beneficiaries.

Wilford Hall Medical Center, 2131 Pepperell Street, Suite 1, San Antonio, TX 78236, USA.
Military medicine (impact factor: 0.92). 10/2008; 173(9):913-7.
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT In addition to active duty military members and their dependents, retired military members and the members of their immediate families are eligible for eye care in military medical treatment facilities. We recorded refractive errors, age, sex, and race for 4,595 individual beneficiaries visiting optometry clinics at two U.S. Air Force medical treatment facilities during 2005 to 2006. Evaluation revealed most patients requiring optical correction were myopic, or near-sighted, and there was an increase in the degree of myopia between ages 4 and 23. That trend is reversed at age 30 and, by age 60, most patients are hyperopic, or far-sighted. Both trends were true for both sexes and all ethnicities studied. The degree of astigmatism was distributed similarly between races and age groups. Presbyopia occurred at similar ages and progressed at similar rates in all ethnicities and both sexes.

0 0
 · 
0 Bookmarks
 · 
15 Views
Data provided are for informational purposes only. Although carefully collected, accuracy cannot be guaranteed. The impact factor represents a rough estimation of the journal's impact factor and does not reflect the actual current impact factor. Publisher conditions are provided by RoMEO. Differing provisions from the publisher's actual policy or licence agreement may be applicable.

Keywords

4,595 individual beneficiaries
 
active duty military members
 
age groups
 
ages 4
 
dependents
 
eye care
 
far-sighted
 
immediate families
 
military medical treatment facilities
 
military members
 
near-sighted
 
optical correction
 
optometry clinics
 
progressed
 
refractive errors
 
sexes
 
similar ages
 
U.S. Air Force medical treatment facilities
 

Randall S Collins