We're Facing a Myopia 'Epidemic', Scientists Say. Here's Why - ScienceAlert
Based on data collected from 107,442 participants in the extensive Biobank program in the UK, people born in the late 1960s are 10 percent more likely to be near-sighted than people born three decades earlier.The oldest cohort covered by the Biobank study was people born between 1939 and 1944: Here 12.6 percent developed myopia in childhood and 7.4 percent developed it later on in life.As other studies around the world have shown, myopia is becoming a problem for more people earlier on in life, while at the same time a higher proportion of the people who develop myopia are reporting more severe cases of the eye disorder.