Sentences with phrase «myopia in»

Most domestic animals are emmetropic, with a tendency towards mild myopia in German Shepherds, Miniature Schnauzers, and Rottweilers.

We propose to identify the region of the dog genome associated with myopia in the Labrador retriever.

President of Optometry Australia, Kate Gifford said «this new finding is of significant importance in our endeavour to mitigate the growing rate of myopia in children.»

There's a myopia in some of these testing people do with their doctors.

Thus a delay in the onset of myopia in young children, who tend to have a higher rate of progression, could provide disproportionate long - term eye health benefits,» the authors write.

According to the Institute, reducing the progression of myopia in individuals by 50 %, will prevent almost 90 % of myopes reaching high levels of myopia.

Not exact matches

«Boards spend an extraordinary amount of time looking in the rear - view mirror,» says Mark Wiseman, CEO of the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and a vocal critic of director myopia.

Possessing fear, self - doubt, over-confidence, in - group thinking, misplaced commitment to a selected course of action or entrepreneurial myopia are just some ways an entrepreneur can sabotage his or her business.

Richelieu: It's marketing myopia to believe that because we have the best fans in the world, that they will come back to the NHL.

And it tells me that, not only has their myopia caused them to have missed the point of Jesus entirely, it's also regularly causing them to miss real crises in the Church.

Secondly, as I have mentioned, Cahill takes seriously the witness of the whole of the New Testament and thus avoids the myopia of those who wish to see the significance of Jesus exclusively in his teaching and who bypass the challenge of his sacrificial death and his continuing presence among us.

Being unable to appreciate diversity but seeing evolution in diversity is the evolution of intellectual myopia.

President Carter's announcement at Notre Dame in 1977 that Americans had gotten over their «inordinate fear of communism»» together with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's statement that Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shared «similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues»» demonstrated that the degradation of moral judgment into moral posturing could coexist with breathtaking strategic myopia (and indeed moral blindness) in minds for which the evocation of the specter of Vietnam marked an end to moral reasoning, or indeed any other form of reasoning.

Visions of history and coherence are swallowed up in specialization and technological myopia.

Of course, this liberal myopia applies only to hate - mongers in one direction.

It is only in terms of this broader context that a political theory's substance can hope to attain insights of greater breadth and validity than those of the myopia of academic «departments» or of the arbitrariness of de facto power.

Modernity, in its naturalistic myopia and «hyperpluralistic» array of governmentally protected competing and incommensurable claims, has simply failed to provide socially cohesive and engaging ways to ask and answer the Life Questions.

It is very doubtful that either parent can supply the emotional support the children need, afflicted as both parents are with myopia so severe as to disable these persons, at least temporarily, in their several roles as father and mother of the children.

We asked our Health Expert Dr. Murray Clarke to tell us little more about the relation of indoor play to myopia and if food could also have a role in better eyesight.

Obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder, depression, diabetes, even myopia — there are a lot of these conditions skyrocketing in youth today.

In terms of bringing about the horizon shift we need, corporate myopia matters at least as much as political myopia.

Myopia, which already affects nearly half of Westerners, and a majority of people in some Asian countries, is on the up and up.

«There's mounting evidence that our anthropogenic light environments are having a real cost on our acuity,» said Melin, with rates of myopia — or nearsightedness — skyrocketing in recent years.

No, if people in the 19th century did not suffer myopia to the extent that we do today, then dim light can hardly be a hazard.

«Myopia - related differences in eye structure may help in developing «customized» intraocular lenses.»

The presence of myopia, or nearsightedness, significantly affects the muscles used in focusing the lens of the eye — a finding with important implications for the development of «accommodating» implanted intraocular lenses (IOLs) that can adjust to different visual distances, reports a study in the January issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

As reported in previous studies, myopia was also associated with increased curvature of the lens.

Speaking at the Australian Vision Convention in Queensland on the weekend, Professor Read said it was not «near work» on computer and other screens causing myopia, but a lack of adequate outdoor light.

«While screens are contributing to children spending more time indoors than in previous years, the research shows they are not the direct cause of the increased incidence of myopia,» he said.

Increasing exposure to outdoor light is the key to reducing the myopia (short - sightedness) epidemic in children, according to ground - breaking research by Australian optometrists.

Katie Williams, first author from the Department of Ophthalmology at King's College London, said: «We knew myopia was becoming more common in certain parts of the world — almost 8 in 10 young people are affected in urban East Asia — but it is very interesting to find that the same pattern is being seen here in Europe.

However, while younger generations tend to have spent more time in education, this did not fully explain why myopia is becoming more common.

More research is required to see if changing trends in childhood outdoor exposure, reading, and educational practices are affecting myopia development.

Half the world's population (nearly 5 billion) will be myopic by 2050 they predict, with up to one - fifth of them (1 billion) in the high myopia category, and at a significantly increased risk of blindness, if behavioural interventions and optical treatments are not developed and implemented.

Currently, it's estimated that over 2 billion people in the world suffer from myopia.

«Specialised contact lenses and spectacles, which can be prescribed by eye care practitioners, have shown very promising results in controlling the progression of myopia.

The rapid increase in the prevalence of myopia globally is attributed to, «environmental factors (nurture), principally lifestyle changes resulting from a combination of decreased time outdoors and increased near work activities, among other factors,» say the authors from Brien Holden Vision Institute, University of New South Wales Australia and Singapore Eye Research Institute.

The findings point to a major public health problem, with the authors suggesting that planning for comprehensive eye care services are needed to manage the rapid increase in high myopes (a five-fold increase from 2000), along with the development of treatments to control the progression of myopia and prevent people from becoming highly myopic.

In what other profession is myopia such a virtue?

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With those factors in mind, research teams have been scrambling to find an answer to the Asian «school myopia» crisis.

Data show that nearsightedness, also called myopia, is twice as prevalent in the middle - income province of Shaanxi compared to the poorer neighboring province of Gansu.

However, when adjusting for other factors, they found no statistically significant differences between lower - income and middle - class students that might explain higher myopia prevalence in richer areas.

In urban Asian areas myopia among teenagers is topping 90 percent — but foresight may be able to bring those numbers way down.

Myopia also appears to be increasing, more slowly, in populations of European and Middle Eastern origin.

«Our study achieved an absolute difference of 9.1 percent in the incidence rate of myopia, representing a 23 percent relative reduction in incident myopia after 3 years, which was less than the anticipated reduction.

In these areas, 80 percent to 90 percent of high school graduates now have myopia.

In certain developed parts of East Asia, nearsightedness is skyrocketing, with the prevalence of myopia now at an estimated 80 to 90 percent of the population.

Many researchers also postulate that exposure to certain kinds of light, particularly indoor versus outdoor light, may be responsible for the uptick in myopia.

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