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Universitas Medica

Print version ISSN 0041-9095On-line version ISSN 2011-0839

Abstract

LINCE-RIVERA, Isabella; CAMACHO, Gabriel Eduardo  and  KUNZEL-GALLO, Alexa. Characterization of Refractive Errors in a Population of Children from 2 to 14 Years of Age in Bogotá, Colombia. Univ. Med. [online]. 2018, vol.59, n.1, pp.11-18. ISSN 0041-9095.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.umed59-1.refr.

Introduction:

Refractive errors can have important repercussions in the performance of an individual, especially in the pediatric community.

Objective:

To determine the prevalence of refractive errors within a sample of 112 children between the ages of 2 and 14 from the Colegio La Candelaria in the city of Bogotá.

Methods:

Cross-sectional study that evaluated through visual acuity, ocular motility, ophthalmoscopy, retinoscopy, and subjective exam, the visual capacity of the children in question.

Results:

We found a prevalence of refractive errors of 18.8% where 13.4% represented astigmatism, 3.6% hypermetropia and 1.8% myopia.

Discussion:

These results were compared with those exposed on a thesis performed in 1973 by which patients with similar conditions were tested. In this study, the refractive errors were of 30.48%, a difference that can be explained by variations in population characteristics. Lastly, it arises the need of screening in other communities.

Keywords : astigmatism; hypermetropia; myopia; prevalence; children.

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