Issues

Life on Earth is a delicately balanced web of interdependence. If we are to thrive, we must work together on many fronts to protect young eyes and advance in terms of understand how our human behaviour can influence the health of young eyes in a positive way. In terms of eye health the human behaviour at a young age unfortunately can have negative consequence on the long term. Blindness at the age of 45-50 caused the behaviour that happened during the childhood, likely will not be an exception in the future because the short distance activies of young eyes are running ‘overtime’. 

Myopia is becoming the most common eye disorder to cause blindness in younger persons in many parts of the world. Visual impairment due to myopia is associated with structural changes of the retina and the globe because of elongation of the eye axis. How axial length-a sum of the anterior chamber depth, lens thickness, and vitreous chamber depth-and myopia relate to the development of visual impairment over time is unknown. A study (Tideman et al. JAMA Ophthalmol 2016) demonstrated that visual impairment is associated with axial length and spherical equivalent and may be unavoidable at the most extreme values in this population. Developing strategies to prevent the development of myopia and its complications could help to avoid an increase of visual impairment in the working-age population. For more information, please click here.

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