Incidence and prevalence of diagnoses of eye disorders of refraction and accommodation, active component service members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2000-2014.

More than half of service members on duty in the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces in July 2014 had been previously diagnosed with at least one of the eye disorders of refraction and accommodation examined in this report. During 2000-2014, the most common diagnoses among service members, in descending order of frequency, were myopia, astigmatism, hyperopia, and presbyopia. The incidence rates for myopia were highest among those younger than 30 years and the rates for hyperopia and presbyopia were highest among those older than 39 years. Incidence rates and prevalence for all the disorders examined were higher among females than males. The methodological limitations of the analysis are discussed with respect to the generalizability of the results to the U.S population.