Steep Corneas

The very front part of the eye, the cornea, has a rounded dome-like shape. The curvature of the dome, i.e. how steep the cornea is, varies among the population.

Girish Valluru and colleagues published an article in the June 2023 edition of the Journal Cornea that tried to correlate different measures of the overall human body (height, weight, etc.) with the steepness of the cornea. They found a pretty strong inverse correlation between height and steep corneas; in other words, taller people tended NOT to have steep corneas.

While I’m not sure I can apply this clinically, I certainly do find it interesting!