Sentences with phrase «higher myopia»

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.

This includes an increased risk of subnormal visual acuity, visual perceptual problems, strabismus, refractive errors (particularly high myopia) and reduced contrast sensitivity and visual fields.

High myopia additionally carries a risk of sight - threatening conditions such as retinal detachment, glaucoma and retinal degeneration.

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.

The number with vision loss from high myopia is expected to increase seven-fold from 2000 to 2050, with myopia to become a leading cause of permanent blindness worldwide.

Not exact matches

Continental myopia will be difficult to sustain when immigrant flows reach Greece and other weak European economies as high unemployment, combined with political turmoil pushes MENA youth abroad.

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

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 her article on short - sightedness (7 November, p 48), Nora Schultz suggests that a diet high in refined carbohydrates may be implicated in its development, because insulin can stimulate eyeball growth, causing myopia.

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.

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

This research was undertaken as part of the Gutenberg Health Study and the results demonstrate that myopia becomes more prevalent with a higher level of education.

The team at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Mainz University Medical Center led by Professor Norbert Pfeiffer and PD Dr. Alireza Mirshahi found strong evidence that attaining a higher level of education and spending more years in school are two factors associated with a greater prevalence and severity of nearsightedness, or myopia.

The tragic flaw in the thinking of many national - standards supporters is not the desire to create high bars for students to clear, but the utter delusion, or maybe just myopia, that allows them to assume that they will control the standards in a monopoly over which, by its very nature, they almost never hold the reins.

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Businesses buying shares back when prices are high instead of low is driven by short - term investing myopia.

In the study mentioned, 2 breeds showed a higher incidence of myopia (near - sightedness): German Shepherd Dogs and Rottweilers.

Nucleic cities with legacy begin to resemble a Ballardian high - rise; the artist's isolation and myopia makes geography feel theoretical due to its confines, creating a warped Earth that exists insofar as an individual can directly engage with and sense it.

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