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Degrees and types of refractive errors in the left and right eye based on SE at Gondar University Hospital Tertiary Eye Care and Training Center, Northwest Ethiopia, 2014
| Degree of RE | Right eye
|
Left eye
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperopia (n=735) |
Myopia (n=662) |
Hyperopia (n=729) |
Myopia (n=663) |
|||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Low | 632 | 86.0 | 316 | 47.7 | 634 | 87.0 | 328 | 49.5 |
| Moderate | 70 | 9.5 | 165 | 25.0 | 58 | 8.0 | 157 | 23.7 |
| High | 33 | 4.5 | 181 | 27.3 | 37 | 5.0 | 178 | 26.8 |
Abbreviations: N, number; RE, refractive error; SE, spherical equivalent.
