The Progression of Myopia with Age.

Lee, Min Jae; Lee, Yong Hwan; Shyn, Kyung Hwan

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1987;28(1):151-155.
Published online January 1, 1987.

The Progression of Myopia with Age.

Min Jae Lee, Yong Hwan Lee, Kyung Hwan Shyn

Department of Ophthalmology, Koryo General Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

연령변화에 따른 근시의 진행정도

이민재(Min Jae Lee),이용환(Yong Hwan Lee),신경환(Kyung Hwan Shyn)

Abstract

The authors evaluated the 56 patients who received the diagnosis of myopia at the department of ophthalmology in Koryo General Hospital in Seoul from May 1975 to August 1985. In this study, we reviewed the statistics of the progression of myopia with age and with the number of visits to the hospital and also the differences between male and female and left eye and right eye. The results are as follows: 1. Myopia progresses with increase of age. 2. The mean diopter of myopia over 21 years is not so remarkable compared with below 20 years. But it is not absolutely true because the number of patients are so small. 3. On the average, males are slightly higher in the degree of myopia than female, but this seems to have no statistical meaning. 4. In terms of the degree of myopia, it is higher after the age of 12 than before 12.