Reference Values of the Central Corneal Thickness with Different Refractive Errors for the Adult Egyptian Population.

Published in: Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) (2020)

The mean of the central corneal thickness of the eastern Egyptian population was 532.8μm for myopic and 530.8μm for hyperopic subjects, respectively. The myopic and hyperopic subjects show a reduction in CCT with age. Females have a thinner cornea than males, 16.2% of the myopic eyes and 12.7% of the hyperopic eyes have CCT less than 500μm.

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