According to experts, each additional year of education after 16 years can lead to a decrease in the optical power of the eye by 0.27 diopters.

Myopia is a disease in which a person can not distinguish between objects located at a long distance. With myopia, the image does not belong to a specific area of ??the retina, but is located in the plane in front of it.

Scientists, in turn, have found out that by 2050 this illness will be at half of the population of the Earth. A team from the University of Bristol has studied data from more than 60,000 people. In the course of the experiment, 44 genetic variants related to the development of myopia were identified, and 69 - with a predisposition to receive higher education.

As a result, it became apparent that each additional year of education after 16 years resulted in an average vision impairment of -0.27 diopters. From this we can conclude that the predisposition to receive higher education leads to a deterioration of vision, and not vice versa.

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