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Nearsightedness, clinically known as myopia, is a common vision ailment. But new evidence suggests that myopia could get a whole lot more common in the near future.
According to a recent press release issued by the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Australia, up to 1 billion people could be at risk for blindness by 2050 if the emerging myopia epidemic is ignored. Currently, up to 2 billion people worldwide have myopia.
Researchers from the institute predict that half the world’s population (nearly 5 billion people at that time) will be myopic by 2050, and one-fifth of those people (nearly 1 billion) will be severely myopic and at risk for blindness. At least that is the foreseeable future "if behavioral interventions and optical treatments are not developed and implemented," according to these researchers.
In myopia, close objects appear clearly while distant objects appear blurry.
