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Retinal light sensitivity of the central visual field among 70‐ to 81‐year‐old men and women
Author(s) -
Pärssinen Olavi,
Era Pertti,
Jokela Jukka,
Suominen Harri
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1994.tb02743.x
Subject(s) - intraocular pressure , medicine , visual field , ophthalmology , visual acuity , retinal , glaucoma , light sensitivity , optometry , population , optics , physics , environmental health
. Retinal light sensitivity of the central visual field (0–30°), visual acuity, intraocular pressure and pupillary size were screened in 42 men and 42 women aged 70 to 81 years. The subjects were randomly selected from the population register. After excluding the diagnosed glaucoma cases, the men had better visual field light sensitivity values than the women. They also had lower intraocular pressure and a wider pupillary diameter than the women, whereas there were no differences in visual acuity between the sexes. When the effect of pupillary size was controlled the differences in visual field light sensitivity values between men and women became nonsignificant. Among these elderly people there was a negative correlation between retinal light sensitivity and age among the men but not among the women.