<prompt> A newborn is hypermetropic by2.5 D5D10 D1D  <response>: N REFRACTIVE error at bih 2-3 D hypermetropic BY the age of 5-7 years the eye is emmetropic and remains so till the age of about 50 years After 50 years of age there is tendency to develop hypermetropia again which gradually increase the extreme of life by which the eye has the same 2 TO 3 with which it staed. this senile hypermetropia is due to change in the lens. 