Refractive and Vision Status in Down Syndrome: A Comparative Study

Hassan Hashemi Shiva Mehravaran Soheila Asgari Farzaneh Dehghanian Nasrabadi

Published in: Turkish journal of ophthalmology (2021)

In DS patients, the prevalence rates of refractive errors, amblyopia, and visual impairment are higher than those in non-DS individuals, and emmetropization appears to be either defective or slow. Cylinder error is stable in this age range, but the rotation of astigmatism axis is different from normal samples.

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