Lag of Accommodation Between 5 and 60 Years of Age.

Purpose: Assessment of the accommodative response is an essential part of the optometric examination. In the clinic, the practitioner needs to determine the response to a given stimulus, typically positioned at the habitual working distance. This study used dynamic retinoscopy to examine the effect...

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Publicado en:Optometry & Visual Performance Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 103 - 109
Autores principales: León, Alejandro, Rosenfield, Mark, Estrada, Jorge Mario, Medrano, Sandra Milena, Márquez, Mónica Marlene
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Optometric Extension Program Jun2017
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          León, Alejandro
          Rosenfield, Mark
          Estrada, Jorge Mario
          Medrano, Sandra Milena
          Márquez, Mónica Marlene
        affil: Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá D. C. Colombia.
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          Ocular Physiology Physiology
          Reference Values
          Refractive Errors
          Named Groups by Age
          Aging
          Presbyopia
          Middle Age
          Adult
          One-Way Analysis of Variance
          Linear Regression
          Analysis of Variance
          Descriptive Statistics
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Regression
          Data Analysis
          Univariate Statistics
          Data Collection
          Sensitivity and Specificity
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
      ab: Purpose: Assessment of the accommodative response is an essential part of the optometric examination. In the clinic, the practitioner needs to determine the response to a given stimulus, typically positioned at the habitual working distance. This study used dynamic retinoscopy to examine the effect of age on both the mean and normal range of accommodative lag to a 2.50D accommodative stimulus. Method: The lag of accommodation was assessed in 1296 subjects between 5 and 60 years of age using either the Nott technique (for subjects under 40 years of age) or monocular estimate method (MEM) retinoscopy (for subjects over 40 years of age). Results: No significant change in lag of accommodation as a function of age was observed for subjects under 40 years of age. The mean lag in this age group was 0.54D, with almost all subjects having lags between 0 and 1.00D. A marked increase in accommodative lag occurred after 40 years of age, with the accommodative response reaching zero by 54 years of age. The effect of age was best described by an exponential function having the equation: lag = 0.945 - (0.057*age) + (0.0016*age2). Accommodative lag did not vary significantly with the type of underlying refractive error. Conclusions: The accommodative response to a 2.50D stimulus remained constant until 40 years of age, with a mean value of approximately 0.50D. Subsequently, a marked increase in accommodative error was observed, concurrent with the onset of clinical presbyopia. Dynamic retinoscopy provides a simple technique for quantifying accommodation in the clinical setting.
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