Acta Scientific Ophthalmology (ISSN: 2582-3191)

Letter to Editor Volume 4 Issue 9

The Magnitude of Refractive Error

Gaurav Dubey1, Dr Kamal Pant1*, Vibha Kumar2, Jamshed Ali3, Ragni Kumari4 and Dr Mahesh Chandra5

1Department of Optometry, FPS, UPUMS Saifai Etawah
2Department of Paramedical Sciences, Jamia Hamdard New Delhi India
3Department of Optometry, Allied Health Science IIMT University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh India
4Department of Optometry, Era University Lucknow
5Dr. Sushila Tewari Hospital and Govt. Medical College, Haldwani, Uttarakhand India

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Kamal Pant, Department of Optometry, FPS, UPUMS Saifai Etawah

Received: August 24, 2021; Published: August 31, 2021

Keywords: Refractive Error; Magnitude; Global Prevalence; Blindness

Refractive errors affect a larger proportion of the world’s population, regardless of age, ethnicity, or ethnic group. Globally, 2.3 billion individuals are known to have refractive errors, with (1.8) billion. having access to. appropriate eye. exams and. inexpensive corrections, and (500 million) have uncorrected errors that cause blindness or impaired vision (mostly in developing nations) [1]. They are a significant cause of poor vision and even blindness, if not corrected. However, they can be easily detected, measured, and corrected with spectacles and other refractive corrections [2]. An uncorrected refractive error has been identified as the leading cause of visual impairment in Asian school-aged populations [3-6] {Hispanic and European} [7,8].

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Citation

Citation: Gaurav Dubey., et al. “The Magnitude of Refractive Error". Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 4.9 (2021): 70-71.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Gaurav Dubey., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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