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Original Research Article
Relationship between axial length of the emmetropic eye and the age, body height, and body weight of schoolchildren
Article first published online: 25 FEB 2005
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20107
Copyright © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Šelović, A., Juresa, V., Ivankovic, D., Malcic, D. and Šelović Bobonj, G. (2005), Relationship between axial length of the emmetropic eye and the age, body height, and body weight of schoolchildren. Am. J. Hum. Biol., 17: 173–177. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.20107
Publication History
- Issue published online: 25 FEB 2005
- Article first published online: 25 FEB 2005
- Manuscript Accepted: 26 OCT 2004
- Manuscript Revised: 19 OCT 2004
- Manuscript Received: 1 JUN 2004
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Abstract
This report assesses the relationship of axial length of emmetropic (without refractive error) eyes to age, height, and weight in 1,600 Croatian schoolchildren. Axial eye lengths were determined by an ultrasonic eye biometry (A scan). Axial length of both eyes increases with age, height, and weight but shows a closer correlation to height and weight than to age. Boys have a significantly longer axial eye length than girls (P < 0.01). Boys or girls of similar or nearing body height and body weight and with emmetropic eyes have close linear measures of anatomic eye structures within their sex, regardless their age. Body height demonstrates the closest correlation to the growth and development of the emmetropic eye. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 17:173–177, 2005. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.