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> About one-fifth of university-aged people in East Asia now have this extreme form of myopia, and half of them are expected to develop irreversible vision loss
by xiaq 12y ago
> About one-fifth of university-aged people in East Asia now have this extreme form of myopia, and half of them are expected to develop irreversible vision loss.
Which means that 10% of university-aged people in East Asia are going to develop irreversible vision loss. This sounds too terrible to be true. Am I missing something here? I interpret vision loss as blindness, but maybe it is used to describe degraded vision instead?
- brianshaler 12y agoPeople in the US often use the phrase "legally blind" while they can see just fine given sufficiently corrective lenses. Let's hope it's that.
- mhurron 12y agoThen they're using the term incorrectly. Legally blind is having 20/200 vision in your best eye with the best correction possible.
- PepeGomez 12y agoYes, vision loss. Their eyebals elongate so much that it rips away the retina.