To confirm the relationships between the degree of myopia, stature, body weight and the axia length, we estimated the stature and body weight, performed cycloplegic refraction, and calculated the axial length by ultrasonographic A Scan. Samples
were 423
young healthy male myopes ageing 18 to 27 (mean 21.4 yr. Old) and control group were 27 young healthy emmetropic males.
The mean axial length was 23.67±0.64mm in control group and 24.40±0.85mm in myopes. With increasing the degree of myopia, the axial lengths were increased proportionally (corelation coefficient=-. 5991, p=.000). But there were no relationships
between
the degree of myopia and the stature or body weight, nor between the axial length and the stature or body weight.
From above result, We think that the stature or body weight, which mean the general expression of the effect of various hormones for body growth, cannot be used as the index for expecting the degree of myopia because the etiology of myopia seems
to
be
the imbalance in the development of various optical portions within the eyeball such as cornea, anterior chamber, lens and vitreous, rather than the disorder in general growth.
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