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Education and myopia: assessing the direction of causality by mendelian randomisation

Edward Mountjoy, Neil M Davies, Denis Plotnikov, George Davey Smith, Santiago Rodrı́guez, Cathy Williams, Jeremy A. Guggenheim, Denize Atan

BMJ · 2018

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Summary

This study shows that exposure to more years in education contributes to the rising prevalence of myopia. Increasing the length of time spent in education may inadvertently increase the prevalence of myopia and potential future visual disability.

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1136/bmj.k2022
Catalogue ID
BFmoef2ocf-bjoees
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