Vision 2020: The Right to Sight
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Ocular growth is essential to the understanding of the development of refractive errors (RE). ÔThe eye is approximately 17 mm long at birth. From birth to age 6, the eye will grow by around 5 mm, will lose 4 dioptres of corneal power and 20 dioptres of lens power. In the general population, there is a preponderance of emmetropes and the prevalence of ‘acquired’ myopia is only 2% by the age of 6 years. During the following 8 years, when the average eye grows only an additional 1 mm, the prevalence of myopia increases more than sevenfold, to 15% by the age of 15 yearsÕ 1
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