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ArticleClinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)2021

Correlation Between Myopic Refractive Error, Corneal Power and Central Corneal Thickness in the Egyptian Population.

Mohamed Kotb, Sherif A Eissa

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Mohamed KotbOphthalmology Department, Kasr Alainy, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-6427-2695
Sherif A EissaOphthalmology Department, Kasr Alainy, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-1862-4343

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purposeTo find out the correlation between myopic refractive error, corneal power and central corneal thickness (CCT) in the adult Egyptian population.

methodsA retrospective observational cross-sectional study in which we analyzed the preoperative data of 1401 Egyptian myopic patients (1401 eyes) who underwent keratorefractive procedures between 2016 and 2019 in a private eye surgery center.

resultsMean age of patients was 28.1± 5.79 years (range 18-40). Mean CCT in the Egyptian population sample in our study was 539.23± 32.24. Only the corneal power parameters (flat K, steep K and average K) showed a statistically significant difference (p-value <0.001) between males and females. A statistically significant and weak positive correlation of average K with the absolute value of refractive astigmatism (r = 0.063, p-value = 0.018), and between myopic error with average K (r = 0.136, p-value <0.001) was found.

conclusionAmong the myopic adult Egyptian population, the greater the myopic error measured, the steeper the cornea, with a weak positive correlation between refractive error and corneal power.

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central corneal thicknesscorneacorneal powerEgyptianmyopia

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PMID33907374
PMCPMC8064724

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