A Statistical Analysis of the Ocular Status of Matriculants

ABSTRACT

Ophthalmologic examinations were performed and analyses were done in regard to the visual acquity, refractive states, color deficiency, and ocular diseases in relation to each college department and year, on 11,930 applicants for entrance to Chonnam National University(first successful candidates; male9247, female 2683) from 1971 to 1978. The results were as follows 1. The incidence of eyes with visual acquities below 1.0 was 45.3%, most of which were myopes. Myopic eyes were 44.0% of the total, of which 42.1% were male and 50.2% female. 2. The prevalence of myopes was highest in applicants to the College of Commerce (52.3%), next the College of Medicine (48.3%), and the least the College of Agriculture (34.1%). 3. On the whole the prevalance of myopic eyes showed a rising tendency every year; the highest in 1976, 51.9% both 50.5% in 1975 and 1978, and the lowest in 1971, 31.5%. 4. The prevalence of color deficiency was 3.9% (364 persons) in males and 0.2% (5 persons). in females. Of the male color deficients, 48.6% (177) had green blindness, 28.3% (103) red green weakness, 11.5% (42) red blindness, 11.3% (41) red green blindness, and 0.3% (1) total color blindness. 5. Of other ocular diseases, exophoria and exotropia were the most predominant.