Studying May Make You Nearsighted- What a Surprise!

What a surprise discovery for ophthalmology.  Optometry has known this for years!

“The effect on myopia of the genetic variations is much less than the effect of education,” said the lead author, Dr. Alireza Mirshahi, an ophthalmologist at the University Medical Center in Mainz. “We used to think that myopia was predetermined by genetics. This is one proof that environmental factors have a much higher effect than we thought.”

Read the abstract in the AAO Journal, click here jenny

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