Yes / Background: The aim was to profile transient accommodative axial length changes from
early adulthood to advanced presbyopia and to determine whether any differences exist
between the responses of myopic and emmetropic individuals.
Methods: Ocular biometry was measured by the LenStar biometer (Haag-Streit, Switzerland)
in response to zero, 3.00 and 4.50 D accommodative stimuli in 35 emmetropes and 37 myopes,
aged 18 to 60 years. All results were corrected to reduce errors arising from the increase in crystalline
lens thickness with accommodation. Accommodative responses were measured sequentially
by the WAM 5500 Auto Ref/Keratometer (Grand Seiko, Hiroshima, Japan).
Results: Axial length increased significantly with accommodation (p < 0.001), with a mean corrected
increase in axial length of 2 18 μm and 8 16 μm observed at 3.00 and 4.50 D,
respectively. The magnitude of accommodative change in axial length was not dependent on
refractive error classification (p = 0.959); however, a significant reduction in the magnitude
and variance of axial length change was evident after 43 to 44 years of age (p < 0.002).
Conclusion: The negative association between transient increase in axial length and age,
in combination with reduced variance of data after age 43 to 44 years, is consistent with a
significant increase in posterior ocular rigidity, which may be influential in the development
of presbyopia. / DL received funds from the College of Optometrists, UK
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/14920 |
| Date | 12 March 2017 |
| Creators | Laughton, D.S., Sheppard, A.L., Mallen, Edward A.H., Read, S.A., Davies, L.N. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © 2017 The Authors. Clinical and Experimental Optometry published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Optometry Australia. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made., CC-BY-NC-ND |
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