Sentences with phrase «as nearsightedness»

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Humans can correct nearsightedness with glasses, contact lenses or surgery, but myopia can put individuals at risk for other diseases such as glaucoma and retinal detachment, she said.

Researchers found that using blackboards had a «protective effect» against nearsightedness when examined as a variable alone, possibly because blackboards do not require the kind of close - up focusing that may increase myopia.

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.

- Living in the middle - class area was associated with a 69 percent increased risk for nearsightedness, even after adjusting for other risk factors, such as time spent reading, outdoor activity and whether the student's parents wore glasses.

In recent decades as study hours have expanded, so has the country's rate of nearsightedness — to epidemic proportions.

Jiro has literal nearsightedness that also serves as a metaphor for what enables him to block out doubt and achieve success while willfully ignoring moral questions.

Left by his father on his grandparents» doorstep as a baby, Zoomy has grown up happily with them in a small Michigan town, despite the extreme nearsightedness that leaves him legally blind and the fact that he has no friends.

They prefer debate which in which they can more easily manipulate public perception to their own ends rather than recognizing what is actually happening to our world as the latter would demand actions which given their nearsightedness they would prefer to avoid.