Ocular residual and corneal astigmatism in a clinical population of high school students

PURPOSE: Total refractive astigmatism is usually the first consideration that guides the selection of contact lens type (e.g., spherical or toric), while the ocular source of the astigmatism is a second, but more important consideration, for the final clinical decision. This study was conducted to provide detailed data on this topic by evaluating astigmatic components in Chinese adolescents.

METHODS: Participants were recruited from healthy high school students undergoing an annual ocular examination at a local hospital. Total astigmatism (TA), corneal astigmatism (CA), and ocular residual astigmatism (ORA) were determined by a Hartmann-Shack wavefront analyzer system (KR-1W, Topcon) with the natural pupil. The axis relationship between CA and ORA was placed into three categories: on-axis, defined as an axis with a difference of 0 ± 10°; opposite-axis, a difference of 90 ± 10°; and the rest defined as oblique-axis.

RESULTS: The study consisted of 1,466 students (57.84% girls, age: 16.49 ± 1.05 years). ORA was present in 83.97%, 66.64%, and 45.23% of participants, according to the various criteria for astigmatism (≥ 0.50 D, ≥ 0.75 D, and ≥ 1.00 D, respectively). While with-the-rule was the most common axis orientation for both TA (76.28%) and CA (89.94%), against-the-rule predominated in ORA (93.82%; χ2 = 1688.544, p < 0.001). Opposite-axis was the major type of axis difference (90.96%) of clinical significance (i.e., ≥ 1.00 D) between CA and ORA, which also prevailed in all levels of TA (range: 56.25-82.26%).

CONCLUSIONS: ORA is common in high school students and usually demonstrates a compensation relationship with CA, which should be taken into consideration when determining the design of contact lenses to correct refractive error.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

PloS one - 13(2018), 4 vom: 09., Seite e0194513

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Zhao [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Luoru [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Chenglin [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiaoning [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Lun [VerfasserIn]
Lan, Weizhong [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Zhikuan [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 24.07.2018

Date Revised 14.11.2018

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0194513

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM282795413