Sentences with phrase «for nearsightedness»

My husband used to wear them all day, everyday for nearsightedness.

- 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.

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If your baby was born prematurely — especially if he was very premature, had an infection, or needed treatment with oxygen — he's at greater risk for developing certain eye problems, including astigmatism (blurred vision), myopia (nearsightedness), retinopathy of prematurity (abnormal blood vessel growth that can lead to blindness), and strabismus (eye misalignment).

Then the doctor announces that he has also taken the liberty of eliminating the «burden» of genetic propensities for baldness, nearsightedness, alcoholism, obesity and domestic violence.

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.

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.

Then the doctor announces that he has also taken the liberty of eliminating the «burden» of genetic propensities for baldness, nearsightedness, alcoholism,...

A full checkup should also include the usual eye - muscle - movement tests and a retinoscopy to check for astigmatism, nearsightedness, and farsightedness.

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Femtosecond lasers can deliver quadrillionths of second pulses of energy, and were already being successfully and widely made use of for cornea reshaping and the correcting of astigmatisms, farsightedness and nearsightedness.

Do you suffer from night blindness or mild nearsightedness that is causing you grief or the need for prescription lenses?

Huckleberry has been used traditionally for treating nearsightedness, eyestrain and poor night vision.

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.

I have suffered from nearsightedness for my entire life.

To that, Volokh responded that, yes, humanity can derive meaning from some shared experiences, but others — hangnails, nearsightedness and tooth decay, for example — we can get by just fine without.