Sentences with word «nearsightedness»

A study from the American Academy of Opthalmology found that Atropine.01 percent eye drops decreased the progression of nearsightedness by roughly 50 percent in a five year clinical trial.

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.

I have suffered from nearsightedness for my entire life.

- 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.

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.

This is the kind of museum deal that afflicts rookie institutions with bouts of temporary nearsightedness.

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.

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

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.

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

Laser vision correction surgery reshapes the cornea of the eye to remove imperfections that cause vision problems like nearsightedness.

Focusing problems such as nearsightedness and farsightedness (myopia and hyperopia) can cause impaired reading ability in school - aged children, and correcting these refractive errors can improve reading.

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.

«What's important is that we figure out how lower - income Chinese students have avoided nearsightedness so we can use those same strategies to prevent more childhood myopia cases across Asia and perhaps even the world.»

In one of the largest population - based studies ever conducted on nearsightedness in children, researchers have discovered that lower - income students in China have better vision than their middle - class counterparts.

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.

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

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.

It includes conditions ranging from simple nearsightedness or farsightedness, to age - related difficulties, to a variety of color - blind conditions, to complete loss of sight.

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.

Dona Nelson on how Steven Charles's nearsightedness aids and inspires the creation of his swarming, colorful, jam - packed abstracts.

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

Some treatments have even caused temporary nearsightedness.

«We're still on the hunt for a plausible explanation and think the results merit more study into whether using blackboards versus books may be partially responsible for protecting eyes against nearsightedness, and what other factors may play a role,» said the project's lead investigator Professor Nathan Congdon, M.D., MPH, of the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center at Sun Yat - sen University in Guangzhou, China.

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

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

The participants — all free of cataracts or other eye diseases — had vision prescriptions ranging from nearsightedness (myopia) to farsightedness (hyperopia).

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

That said, one of the heralded attributes of great leaders — their passion and vision — is often a double - edged sword that can cloud perspective and lead to myopia or nearsightedness.

It is nearsightedness and senseless pandemonium spread from the Nixon era.

Myopia (nearsightedness).

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).

Hand - held toys: Her nearsightedness makes her appreciate anything you can move into her line of sight.

If your child holds a book too close, then this could be an indicator of nearsightedness but it does not mean that your child's vision may be damaged due to it.

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.

«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.

Refractive error refers to any of the common vision problems causing decreased sharpness of vision, including myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia, (farsightedness), or astigmatism.

Uncorrected refractive error (URE)-- nearsightedness, farsightedness, and other focusing problems correctable by prescription lenses — is responsible for moderate to severe vision impairment in 101 million people and blindness in seven million people worldwide, reports a study in the March issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

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.

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

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.

The addition of a daily outdoor activity class at school for three years for children in Guangzhou, China, resulted in a reduction in the rate of myopia (nearsightedness, the ability to see close objects more clearly than distant objects), according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

In areas of the world where families can not afford eyeglasses, poor vision from nearsightedness is a serious disability that can affect a person's ability to learn and work.

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.

Spiking rates of nearsightedness are becoming a global health problem — but a simple behavioral change could be the solution