PURPOSE: To study the evolution of hyperopia during childhood. METHODS: A retrospective study through the analysis of 67 patients' charts. All patients were checked before the 3rd year of age and were followed for at least 5 years. The mean age at the first examination was 18.5 ± 6.9 months and the mean age at the end of the follow-up was 8.4 ± 1.7 years, providing an average time of the 6.8 ± 1.8 years of follow-up. RESULTS: There was an increase in hyperopia when comparing the 1st with the 3rd year of life (p < 0.05). This was maintained without statistically significant variation until the 10th year of life. There was no difference in the variation of the hyperopia when the children were separeted into groups with low and high ametropia. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrates that hyperopia presents small variations during the first years of life, however it tends to be statistically stable from the 3rd to the 10th year of age.
Hyperopia; Children; Retrospective studies; Evolution
