Adequacy of the Fogging Test in the Detection of Clinically Significant Hyperopia in School-Aged Children

Table 2

Area under the ROC curve (AUC) for the hyperopia’s thresholds of ≥+2 D and ≥+1.5 D for different groups according to the presence of uncorrected astigmatism, age, chart type, and use of correction.

	Astigmatism		Age		Chart		Correction
	<0.5 D	≥0.5 D	≤6 years	>6 years	Angular	Snellen	No	Yes
≥+2 D
AUC	0.967	0.972	0.961	0.947	0.972	0.929	0.969	0.886
>+1.5 D
AUC	0.804	0.875	0.804	0.886	0.837	0.836	0.832	0.833

Optic correction (≤0.75 D).