The U.S. Army aviation branch is making final funding and planning decisions on the fielding of a contact lens program for Army aircrew members. This report stratifies the prevalence of refractive error by aviation duty position, service component, and rank. There is an increasing prevalence of refractive error in the higher ranking aircrew members, paralleling increasing age with rank promotion. Comparing service components, the prevalence is higher in the reserve component and civilian forces than active duty forces. Within the aviator service component cohorts, there has been a significant upward trend in the annual period prevalence of refractive error from 1986 through 1992, especially in the Army Reserve and National Guard cohorts. This upward trend may be related to the observed upward trend in the average age of Army aircrew members as a group from 1986 through 1990.... Visual acuity, Aviation personnel, Aviation medicine, Databases, Epidemiology, Refractive error.
U.S. Army Aviation Epidemiology Data Register: Prevalence of Refractive Error Among U.S. Aircrew Members
1993
30 pages
Report
No indication
English