Tag: children

Authors: Saiko Matsumura, Cheng Ching-Yu, Seang-Mei Saw “Collectively, there are significant differences in the prevalence of myopia between urban areas and rural areas. In China, the prevalence of myopia was 38.1% in children aged 5–15 years in urban area, Guangzhou, whereas the prevalence of myopia was 5.0% in children aged 5–18 years in rural...

“The role of visual acuity and refractive errors in the academic performance of children is controversial due to the variable quality of the research in this area and the mixed findings reported…  Despite … limitations, the weight of evidence suggests there is an association between academic performance and both...