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Ocular dimensions and refractive power in Malay and Melanesian children
Author(s) -
Garner Leon F.,
Meng Chung Kah,
Grosvenor Theodore P.,
Mohidin Norhani
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
ophthalmic and physiological optics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.147
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1475-1313
pISSN - 0275-5408
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1313.1990.tb00857.x
Subject(s) - malay , optometry , power (physics) , geography , medicine , physics , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics
A cross‐sectional study of 753 Melanesian children in Vanuatu and 904 Malay children in Malaysia included measurement of refractive error and ocular dimensions. All children were between the ages of 6 and 17 years. The prevalence of myopia in Malay children was 4.3% at 7–8 years and 25.6% at 15–16 years with corresponding figures of 0.8% and 4.3% for Melanesian children. The range of refractive error was greater for Malay children at all ages. Mean refractive error for Malay children showed greater hypermetropia, together with a shorter axial length at 6 years, than Melanesian children, but at 17 years the situation reversed and Malay children had more myopia and longer axial lengths than their Melanesian counterparts.