Karthikeyan Siva Baskaran

Jul 2, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Pelsin Demir |Karthikeyan Siva Baskaran |Pedro Ramos |Thomas Naduvilath

The 2-year incidence of myopia among Swedish schoolchildren was low. The risk factors for refractive error changes were parental myopia and being already a myope at the start of the study. A new hypothesis is raised that low educational pressure in early childhood might protect Swedish children from abnormal emmetropisation leading to myopia. INTRODUCTION The prevalence of myopia in Scandinavia is lower than in other parts of the world.