Sentences with phrase «in nearsightedness»

The result is an increase in nearsightedness, even in kids who aren't genetically predisposed to it.

In this case, the rapid increase in nearsightedness appears to be due to a characteristic of modern life: more and more time spent indoors under artificial lights.

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Christian nearsightedness comes from standing so close to just one cross in a forest of others.

«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.

Nearsightedness is estimated to occur in just 3 percent of hunter - gatherers.

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.

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.

-- Nearsightedness was less prevalent in males overall.

«Additional time spent outdoors by children results in decreased rate of nearsightedness.»

Recent studies of children and young adults in Denmark and across Asia show that more time outdoors and exposure to daylight is associated with less 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.

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.

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

We are also involved in the latest refractive surgery procedures to treat nearsightedness, astigmatism and farsightedness.

To analyze the correlation between myopia development and education, researchers at the Mainz University Medical Center examined nearsightedness in 4,658 Germans aged 35 to 74, excluding anyone with cataracts or who had undergone refractive surgery.

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.

Approximately a third to a half of the cases of lazy eye are a result of differences in the degree of farsightedness or nearsightedness between the 2 eyes, a condition called anisometropia.

The Vitamin D Council reports in a study from May 2014 that Vitamin D deficiency appears to be related to the severity of nearsightedness.

Few males who were going through adolescence in the early»60s will forget Feldon pitching Top Brass cologne to the «tigers» in the audience, staring into the camera with almost unbearable sultriness (the actress insisted that her come - hither glare was a result of nearsightedness).

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.

Cass has the distinct impression that he can see better in the sharpened air, that the cold is counteracting the nearsightedness that has had him wearing glasses since he was twelve.

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.