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Refractive distribution was analysed in an adult non-ophthalmic hospital-based group examined in1981. The large subgroup of diabetic subjects appeared to have myopia more often than non-diabetics, while patients with thyroid disease (TD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were close to normal. Using the non-diabetic data for corirn two recent groups of adults are investigated, with TD (n=164, age 20–76) and former juvenile RA (n=66, age 21–49), respectively. Both groups had more myopia than the reference material. The thyroid patients had a myopia prevalence of 32.9%, and in the JRA follow-up study it was 42.4%. A scleral collagen-weakening component during youth might underlie the increased occurrence of myopia in the latter group. However, its younger age composition — there is population evidence of a young adult myopia prevalence peak — should also be kept in mind.
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Fledelius, H.C. (2000). Diabetes, Thyroid Disease, and Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Association with Myopia?. In: Lin, L.LK., Shih, YF., Hung, P.T. (eds) Myopia Updates II. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66917-3_25
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