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Abstract #20481 Published in IGR 10-1
Equatorial lens growth predicts the age-related decline in accommodative amplitude that results in presbyopia and the increase in intraocular pressure that occurs with age
Schachar RAInternational Ophthalmology Clinics 2008; 48: 1-8
In summary, equatorial lens growth is the etiology of the age-related decline in accommodation that results in the symptomatic manifestation of clinical presbyopia in the fifth decade of life. Accommodative amplitude declines rapidly in childhood and slowly thereafter, inversely reflecting the pattern of normal equatorial lens growth. Normal equatorial lens growth is also the basis for the age-related rapid increase in IOP during childhood and its slower increase thereafter.
Dr. R.A. Schachar, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Classification:
2.10 Lens (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)
6.1.3 Factors affecting IOP (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.1 Intraocular pressure measurement; factors affecting IOP)
