Interpupillary Distance and Pupil Diameter of Baseball Athletes and Non-athletes.

Purpose: To examine whether differences exist in interpupillary distance (IPD) and pupil diameter (PD) between professional baseball players compared to non-athletes (males and females). Methods: 149 Major League Baseball (MLB) athletes and 416 non-athletes (NA) were examined on the RightEye IPD/PD...

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Publicado en:Optometry & Visual Performance Vol. 6; no. 5; pp. 193 - 200
Autores principales: Hunfalvay, Melissa, Kubitz, Karla, Murray, Nicholas P., Tibbert, Stephanie, Bolte, Takumi
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Optometric Extension Program Oct2018
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          Hunfalvay, Melissa
          Kubitz, Karla
          Murray, Nicholas P.
          Tibbert, Stephanie
          Bolte, Takumi
        affil: RightEye, LLC, Bethesda, Maryland
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          Pupil Anatomy and Histology
          Baseball
          Athletes, Professional
          Human
          Female
          Male
          Adult
          One-Way Analysis of Variance
          Kruskal-Wallis Test
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Athletic Performance
          Depth Perception
          Visual Acuity
          Descriptive Statistics
          Confidence Intervals
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: Purpose: To examine whether differences exist in interpupillary distance (IPD) and pupil diameter (PD) between professional baseball players compared to non-athletes (males and females). Methods: 149 Major League Baseball (MLB) athletes and 416 non-athletes (NA) were examined on the RightEye IPD/PD test. One-way analysis of variance with Levene tests for testing assumption of variances were performed. If assumptions were violated, the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to analyze group differences with Tukey and Dunnett (T3) post-hoc tests. Alpha was set to p<0.05. Results: For IPD, there was a significant difference (p<0.0005) between female non-athletes, male non-athletes, and MLB players. IPD did not meet the assumption of homogeneity of variance (p<0.0005). Post-hoc tests indicated that for IPD, all three groups were significantly different from one another. Female non-athletes had the smallest IPD. Male nonathletes had a larger IPD than female athletes. MLB players had the largest IPD. For PD, there was a significant difference (< 0.0005) between female non-athletes, male non-athletes, and MLB players. Post-hoc tests indicated that for PD, male and female non-athletes were not significantly different from one another. MLB players were, however, significantly different from female non-athletes and from male non-athletes. Both male and female non-athletes had a larger PD than MLB players. Conclusions: Past research has shown that IPD and PD affect important visual skills needed for playing baseball, such as stereo acuity, convergence, accommodation, and image quality. Differences in IPD and PD may provide another component in the equation that determines success.
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