A study of the rela tionship between accommodative hysteresis and early-onset myopia
LI Jin,SHI Ming-guang,DONG Feng. (Department of Ophthalmology, The S econd Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325003)
Abstract: Objective: The objective of the study was to compare the accommodative hysteresis of emmetropic and myopic children and to evaluate the relationship b etween accommodative hysteresis and early-onset myopia.Methods: 38 schoolchildren aged 6~14 years (average age = 10.1 years) participat ed in the experiment. Measurements of tonic accommodation and accommodative hyst eresis were taken before and immediately after focusing on a target placed 3D aw ay for 5 min. The accommodative loop was opened by viewing a DOG target (0.2 cpd ) placed 40cm away from subjects in a dim environment. The difference between t he pre-task and post-task values was defined as accommodative hysteresis.Results: The myopic children in our study tend to have lower accommodative hyste resis values than emmetropic children after the same near work. But analysis of variance indicated that no significant differences were found in accommodative h ysteresis between the emmetropic and myopic groups.Conclusion: Environmental factors such as near work play a less important role t han hereditary factors in the development of early-onset myopia. Our results ind icate that early-onset myopia and late-onset myopia have different myopic etiolo gies. Key words: myopia/etiology; children; tonic accommodation; accommodative hysteres is
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