Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies

Epidemiological research on myopia and visual impairment maps how conditions like nearsightedness, uncorrected refractive errors, and amblyopia are distributed across populations, age groups, and regions, tracking both how common they are and what drives their spread. Global prevalence of myopia has risen sharply over recent decades, particularly among children in East Asia, making it one of the more pressing public health concerns in eye care today. Researchers are actively working to untangle the relative contributions of genetic predisposition and environmental exposures — such as time spent indoors and near-work demands — to explain this trend and identify who is most at risk. Open questions remain around which interventions, including atropine eye drops and orthokeratology lenses, are most effective at slowing progression in children, and how to close the treatment gap for the hundreds of millions worldwide who live with avoidable vision loss from uncorrected refractive errors.

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MyopiaVisual ImpairmentEpidemiologyRefractive ErrorGlobal PrevalenceChildhood Myopia