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ArticleScientific reports2017

Adaptation to Progressive Additive Lenses: Potential Factors to Consider.

Tara L Alvarez, Eun H Kim, Bérangère Granger-Donetti

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Design of Progressive Addition Lens for Presbyopia: A Systematic Review.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026
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  4. Convergence Insufficiency Neuro-mechanism in Adult Population Study Randomized Clinical Trial: Clinical Outcome Results.Optometry and vision science : official publication of the American Academy of Optometry · 2020
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  7. Treatments for Presbyopia.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2025
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  9. Effect of convergence on the horizontal VOR in normal subjects and patients with peripheral and central vestibulopathy.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Tara L AlvarezDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA. tara.l.alvarez@njit.edu.
Eun H KimDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA.
Bérangère Granger-DonettiDepartment of Vision Sciences, Essilor Research & Development, Paris, France.
New Jersey Institute of Technology · USEssilor (France) · FR

Funding

Functional Mechanisms of Neural Control in Convergence InsufficiencyR01EY023261 · NEI · NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ALVAREZ, TARA LYNN · 2014 to 2025
$4.9M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY023261
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

People develop presbyopia as part of the normal aging process. Most presbyopes adapt to progressive additive lens (PALs), while others do not. This investigation sought to determine whether the ability to modify disparity vergence or phoria was correlated to PALs adaptation. In experiment 1, a double-step paradigm quantified the ability to modify convergence responses in sixteen presbyopes. In experiment 2, thirty-one incipient presbyopes participated in a 5-minute sustained fixation task to evoke phoria adaptation where the magnitude and rate of phoria adaptation were measured. Then, the experiment was repeated after wearing PALs for one month. Linear regression analyses were conducted between the following parameters: near point of convergence, positive fusional vergence at near, vergence facility, net change in the magnitude of phoria adaptation, and the rate of phoria adaptation. The ability to change convergence average peak velocity was significantly greater (p < 0.03) in presbyopic PALs adapters compared to presbyopic PALs non-adapters. The rate of phoria adaptation and vergence facility were significantly greater (p < 0.03) in incipient presbyopic PALs adapters compared to incipient presbyopic PALs non-adapters. Vergence facility and the rate of phoria adaptation may have potential clinical utility in differentiating which patients may adapt to PALs and which ones will have more difficulty.

Indexed as

Accommodation, OcularAdaptation, OcularAgedAgingFemaleHumansLensesMaleMiddle AgedPresbyopiaVision, Binocular

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PMID28566706
PMCPMC5451391
OpenAlexW2617939112

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