Trouble with vision tends to start in the middle of childhood, so it would only make sense that researchers would focus their attention on targeting vision conditions at an early age. A recent study published in JAMA Ophthalmology has revealed a new test that can accurately predict if a child will become nearsighted by the eighth grade by using a measure of their current refractive error, or eyeglasses prescription. "Near work has been thought to be a cause of myopia, or at least a risk factor, for more than 100 years.
Some of the studies that led to that conclusion are hard to refute," Karla Zadnik, said in a statement. "In this large dataset from an ethnically representative sample of children, we found no association." Zadnik and her colleagues recruited 4,512 children between first and eighth grades at the beginning of the study over 20 years ago. Between the ages of 6 and 11, in…
