JUN 21, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO – A new study estimates that 9.6 million adults in the United States are highly myopic, or severely nearsighted. Of those, nearly 820,000 have a degenerative form of the disease and more than 41,000 suffer a complication called myopic choroidal neovascularization that could cause long-term vision loss, with women at higher risk. The findings are being published in Ophthalmology, journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.