{"id":1053667,"date":"2012-11-30T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/neurology\/myopia-2012-lancet-review.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:53:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:53:39","slug":"myopia-2012-lancet-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/myopia-2012-lancet-review.php","title":{"rendered":"Myopia &#8211; 2012 Lancet review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2608\/483\/1600\/eye.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9b9e209ded_eye.png\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(12)60272-4\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Lancet<\/a>:<\/p><p>Myopia (nearsightedness) has emerged as a major health issue in east Asia, because of:<\/p><p>- increasingly high prevalence in the past few decades. It now affacts 80-90% in school-leavers. <br>- sight-threatening pathologies associated with high myopia, which now affect 10-20% of those completing secondary schooling in east Asia.<\/p><p>Similar, but less marked, changes are occurring in other parts of the world. <\/p><p>The higher prevalence of myopia in east Asian cities seems to be associated with increasing educational pressures, combined with life-style changes, which have reduced the time children spend outside. <\/p><p>There are no reported major genes for school myopia, although there are several genes associated with high myopia. Any genetic contribution to ethnic differences may be small.<\/p><p>There are some optical and pharmacological interventions that seem promising for preventing the development of myopia or slowing its progression, but the evidence is still preliminary.<\/p><p>References:<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(12)60272-4\/fulltext\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Myopia<\/a>. Prof Ian G Morgan PhD a b , Prof Kyoko Ohno-Matsui MD c, Prof Seang-Mei Saw PhD. The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9827, Pages 1739 - 1748, 5 May 2012.<br>Image source: OpenClipArt.org<\/p><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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It now affacts 80-90% in school-leavers. - sight-threatening pathologies associated with high myopia, which now affect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/myopia-2012-lancet-review.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}