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Br J Ophthalmol 84:890-893 doi:10.1136/bjo.84.8.890
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    • Clinical science

Use of paper selectively absorbing long wavelengths to reduce the impact of educational near work on human refractive development

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Parameters of the model11 Low risk (emmetropes) High risk (myopes)
Accommodation gain (Ag) 10 3
Vergence gain (Vg) 150 150
Accommodative convergence per unit of accommodation (AC/A ratio,AC) 0.8 1.2 Metre angles per dioptre
Convergence accommodation per unit of convergence (CA/C ratio, CA) 0.37 0.2 Dioptres per metre angle
Tonic accommodation (At) 0.61 0.25 Dioptres
Tonic vergence (phoria, Vt) 0.29 2 Metre angles
Emmetropisation gain (Eg) 0.1 0.1
Tnear/Tfar 80/20 80/20 %
As/Vs (white paper) 3.0/3.0 3.0/3.0 Dioptres/metre angle
As/Vs (long wave absorbing paper) 2.5/3.0 2.5/3.0 Dioptres/metre angle

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