Affiliation:
1. Department of Ophthalmology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur
Abstract
Objective: Study Design: To nd out association between ABO blood groups and refractive errors. Descriptive cross
sectional study. This study was conducted in SMS Medical college , De Method: pt of Ophthalmology from 1st July 2022
till 1st August 2022 . A total of 100 patients having age group 15-40 years of both genders were enrolled in the study. The patients having other eye
diseases and blood dyscrasias were excluded from the study. The data was analyzed. Out of 100 patients, 60 patients (60%) of myopia Results:
were presented between 15 to 35 years of age. No hyperopic patient was present between 40 to 50 years of age. 32(32%) out of 50 patients were
having blood group O and myopia while only 24(24%) out of 100 patients were associated with blood group A and B. Only 6(6%) hyperopic
patients were having blood group A and O while 8(8%) were associated with blood group B. Conclusion: Blood group O shows slight predominance to myopia while other blood groups showed no specic association with other refractive errors.
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