Sentences with phrase «decreased visual acuity»

Trans fats accumulate in mother's milk and can lead to decreased visual acuity and learning difficulties in the infant.

Physical exam — Neurological exam looks for exaggerated reflexes, decreased movements, decreased sensation, gait and balance disturbances, visual field defects, decreased visual acuity, and abnormal papillary responses.

A simple method of testing «twilight vision» gives reliable results in identifying people who have decreased visual acuity under low light conditions, according to a study in the May issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

Contrary to what Mead Johnson's website states, the negative effects of artificial feeding include decreased visual acuity and reduced cognitive development.

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With each progressive reduction in illumination, visual acuity decreased significantly.

The new study provides a simple and reliable approach to testing twilight vision, and shows that the light level itself is the major factor explaining the decrease in visual acuity.

Using a combination of modeling and experiments, Sponberg et al. show that moths are able to avoid this potential decrease in visual acuity (see the Perspective by Warrant).

The researchers also found that while participants may not have a measurable decrease in their visual acuity, their reported reduced visual function may possibly be the result of contrast sensitivity associated with early - stage AMD.

In addition, estrogen use may decrease the risk of developing glaucoma, prevent retinal ganglion cell death, reduce intraocular pressure and preserve visual acuity.

Reading is a multifactorial process that is influenced by psychological, physiological, environmental, sociological and linguistic factors.1, 2 From an optometrist's perspective, a decrease in reading ability may be associated with poor visual acuity, unstable binocular vision, or ocular disease.3 It is therefore important that people with poor reading comprehension receive a comprehensive oculo - visual assessment.

This is due to the fact that the light in this room is different from the studio where the works were initially produced and the fact that visual acuity decreases as light levels decrease.

Performance on the visual acuity test was coded on a continuum using standard guidelines (Schumm et al., 2009), whereby 20/20 vision or better was coded as «normal or better» vision, between 20/40 and 20/20 was coded as «good» vision, between approximately 20/60 and 20/40 was coded as «moderately decreased» vision, and worse than 20/60 was coded as «poor» vision.

Based on their performance on the visual acuity test, 18.8 % (N = 139) had normal or better vision, almost two thirds had good vision (64.6 %, N = 477), 12.1 % (N = 89) had moderately decreased vision, and 4.5 % (N = 33) scored in the poor vision range.

An examination of the match between the two vision assessments (not reported earlier) showed that 91 respondents whose visual acuity fell in the moderately decreased to poor range rated their vision to be good to excellent and an additional 63 respondents whose visual acuity fell in the normal to good range rated their vision as fair or poor.