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Half the world's population to be myopic by 2050
Half the world\'s population nearly five billion will be short-sighted or myopic by 2050, with up to one-fifth of them at a significantly increased risk of blindness if current trends continue, researchers, including those of Indian-origin, have claimed.
Melbourne: Half the world's population nearly five billion will be short-sighted or myopic by 2050, with up to one-fifth of them at a significantly increased risk of blindness if current trends continue, researchers, including those of Indian-origin, have claimed.
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, researchers said.
The rapid increase in the prevalence of myopia globally is attributed to, "environmental factors, principally lifestyle changes resulting from a combination of decreased time outdoors and increased near work activities, among other factors," said researchers from Brien Holden Vision Institute, University of New South Wales Australia and Singapore Eye Research Institute.
