Prevalence of refractive errors of the eye for Iraqi adults

Abstract

Epidemiological studies indicated that uncorrected refractive errors are accounted to be among the important risk factors for visual impairments in the world for this reason this was chosen to achieve this study. This study was carried out in Ibn Al Haythim hospital in Iraq to estimate and determine the prevalence of the refractive errors (myopia, hypermetropia, and astigmatism) in Iraqi adults.