A new study has found that 9.6 million U.S. adults are highly myopic, with almost 820,000 of them with a degenerative form of the disease and over 41,000 suffering from myopic choroidal neovascularization.
The study — conducted jointly by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), Genentech, the National Institutes of Health and UC Davis — is reportedly the first large-scale study ever done to calculate the real-world prevalence of myopic choroidal neovascularization in the U.S.
Researchers also found that women seem to be at a greater risk for high myopia complications. The prevalence rate for progressive high myopia was 0.42 percent in women compared to 0.25 in men. And of the over 41,000 U.S. adults with myopic choroidal neovascularization, the prevalence rate for women is double that of men.
Study findings were published online yesterday in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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Source: American Academy of Ophthalmology