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Background: Uncorrected hyperopia is the most common refractive error in childhood. Uncorrected hyperopia places an extra demand on the accommodative system for near tasks and evidence suggests associations between uncorrected hyperopia and abnormal visual development, and poore…

The main experimental work of this thesis has been a cross-sectional study of the prevalence of refractive error and its biometric correlates in Middle Eastern adults. In addition dynamic accommodative responses and twenty-four hour axial length fluctuations were investigated in…