It’s a worrying statistic, given that myopia can lead to a number of eye disorders later in life, including glaucoma, early cataracts, and macular degeneration. The Singapore Eye Research ...

Myopia has also been associated with common vision-threatening conditions like cataracts, primary open angle glaucoma and retinal detachments. The risk of developing these conditions depends on the ...

Myopia, or nearsightedness ... they need to be removed due to other eye surgeries or complications, such as glaucoma. That requires more surgery, and may damage the eye. Haohai Biological ...

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is one of the most important vision-threatening complications secondary to pathological myopia (PM). In the last 20 years, there have been rapid advances in the ...

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“Most of my patients, both adults and children, don’t realize if it’s not corrected it can increase risk for more severe vision problems later in life such as retinal detachments, glaucoma, and ...

There are a few steps parents can take to reduce the risk of their child developing myopia or it getting worse, experts said.

Uncontrolled myopia can lead to an increased risk of eye conditions such as retinal detachment, glaucoma, cataracts, and myopic maculopathy in adulthood. Therefore, its progression needs to be ...

Open-angle glaucoma is an eye disease that causes a gradual loss of vision. It is the most common type of glaucoma, a set of ...

The search terms "bilateral angle closure" and "drug-induced myopia" resulted in 355 and 27 articles, respectively. We evaluated these reports using the Naranjo adverse drug reaction probability ...

Prof Saw’s work and that of other epidemiologists led to the recognition that myopia can cause many problems as people get older, such as retinal detachment, cataract and glaucoma, said Prof Tan.