Purpose: To determine the prevalence of ocular diseases among candidates and members of Military Service.
Material and methods: A retrospective review of medical examinations for entry to the military service from The Area of Military Medical Ophthalmic Commission in Lodz. We used statistic analysis to review the results.
Results: Statistic analysis revealed that the commonest ocular diseases are in order: refractive errors, color vision disturbances and strabismus.
Conclusions: 1. The prevalence of ocular diseases among candidates and members of Polish Military Service is the same as discovered in other ophthalmologic researches. 2. Commonest ocular diseases were refractive errors (21.63% in total).