TY - GEN
T1 - Investigation and Analysis of Corneal Morphology in Young Divers
AU - Mao, Chenyang
AU - Wang, Xin
AU - Li, Heng
AU - Li, Haojin
AU - Zhou, Dan
AU - Chen, Jianwen
AU - Dong, Honglun
AU - Hu, Yan
AU - Liu, Jiang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - To investigate the corneal morphology of adolescent diving athletes and analyze the related influencing factors. Corneal topographic maps were taken of 42 young athletes (19 males and 23 females, aged 9–17 years) from the diving team of Shenzhen Sports School, and then three morphological data of corneal curvature, astigmatism, and thickness were measured based on the topographic maps. A study was conducted to analyze the influence of diving on corneal morphology by comparing with the reference data of children of the same age in the literature, and statistically analyzing the relationship between different genders, ages, exercise levels, training time, and corneal morphology. The radius of the corneal curvature of athletes was significantly smaller than that of children of the same age (P < 0.01). There were statistical differences in the corneal curvatures of athletes in different age groups and training time groups (P < 0.05), and there were also differences in corneal thickness in different training time groups (P < 0.05). There were no statistically significant differences in corneal morphology among gender and exercise level groups. Diving can affect the corneal morphology of adolescent athletes, and the radius of corneal curvature is significantly lower than that of children of the same age. Corneal curvature is related to athletes' age and training time, and corneal thickness is affected by training time. Attention should be paid to the changes in the corneal morphology of diving athletes.
AB - To investigate the corneal morphology of adolescent diving athletes and analyze the related influencing factors. Corneal topographic maps were taken of 42 young athletes (19 males and 23 females, aged 9–17 years) from the diving team of Shenzhen Sports School, and then three morphological data of corneal curvature, astigmatism, and thickness were measured based on the topographic maps. A study was conducted to analyze the influence of diving on corneal morphology by comparing with the reference data of children of the same age in the literature, and statistically analyzing the relationship between different genders, ages, exercise levels, training time, and corneal morphology. The radius of the corneal curvature of athletes was significantly smaller than that of children of the same age (P < 0.01). There were statistical differences in the corneal curvatures of athletes in different age groups and training time groups (P < 0.05), and there were also differences in corneal thickness in different training time groups (P < 0.05). There were no statistically significant differences in corneal morphology among gender and exercise level groups. Diving can affect the corneal morphology of adolescent athletes, and the radius of corneal curvature is significantly lower than that of children of the same age. Corneal curvature is related to athletes' age and training time, and corneal thickness is affected by training time. Attention should be paid to the changes in the corneal morphology of diving athletes.
KW - Corneal morphology
KW - Corneal topography
KW - Diving
KW - Young athletes
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-0903-8_1
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-0903-8_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85187692467
SN - 9789819709021
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 3
EP - 12
BT - Applied Intelligence - First International Conference, ICAI 2023, Proceedings
A2 - Huang, De-Shuang
A2 - Premaratne, Prashan
A2 - Yuan, Changan
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 1st International Conference on Applied Intelligence, ICAI 2023
Y2 - 8 December 2023 through 12 December 2023
ER -