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Recent Examples of presbyopia
When Readers Aren’t Enough Not all eye symptoms people experience in their 40s can be attributed to presbyopia.
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Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 20 Sep. 2024
This vision change, called presbyopia, explains why many people in their 40s and beyond need reading glasses.8
Cataracts—a clouding of the lens—also become more common with age, which may lead to the need for cataract surgery.
—Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
Nor do these eye exercises help with presbyopia, or the need for reading glasses, which generally begins at around age 40.
—Benjamin Botsford, CNN, 10 June 2024
Using Monovision Lenses for Presbyopia Surgery Surgery can be used to correct presbyopia as well.
—Christine L. Larsen, Verywell Health, 8 May 2024
Laser Surgeries Two different laser surgeries, called LASIK and PRK, are used to correct presbyopia.
—Christine L. Larsen, Verywell Health, 8 May 2024
Compared to other, more intractable health problems, addressing presbyopia is fairly inexpensive.
—Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Current Clinical Trials and Outcomes Clinical trials have started on the effectiveness of spiral diopter lenses for correcting presbyopia.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
How do Vuity eyedrops for presbyopia work?
—Steven Odierna As Told To Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 9 Mar. 2022
Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 20 Sep. 2024
This vision change, called presbyopia, explains why many people in their 40s and beyond need reading glasses.8
Cataracts—a clouding of the lens—also become more common with age, which may lead to the need for cataract surgery.
—Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
Nor do these eye exercises help with presbyopia, or the need for reading glasses, which generally begins at around age 40.
—Benjamin Botsford, CNN, 10 June 2024
Using Monovision Lenses for Presbyopia Surgery Surgery can be used to correct presbyopia as well.
—Christine L. Larsen, Verywell Health, 8 May 2024
Laser Surgeries Two different laser surgeries, called LASIK and PRK, are used to correct presbyopia.
—Christine L. Larsen, Verywell Health, 8 May 2024
Compared to other, more intractable health problems, addressing presbyopia is fairly inexpensive.
—Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Current Clinical Trials and Outcomes Clinical trials have started on the effectiveness of spiral diopter lenses for correcting presbyopia.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
How do Vuity eyedrops for presbyopia work?
—Steven Odierna As Told To Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 9 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presbyopia
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Untreated hyperopia can lead to the development of a lazy eye (amblyopia) or additional vision loss.Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
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Some people with hyperopia can have their vision surgically corrected.Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
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Nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism are other forms of refractive errors.Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2024
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Benefits of eye surgery include improvement of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
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Is there some idea why this myopia epidemic is happening?Gary Stix, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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In the myopia that results, especially in the face of an uncertain world—where crisis after crisis pops up like the old arcade game of Whack-a-Mole—the temptation is to make changes based on flitting and unknowable assumptions that do absolutely nothing to determine success over the long term.James Berman, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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More than 40% of Americans are estimated to have myopia, also known as nearsightedness.Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
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And that's important, because the number of kids with nearsightedness – or myopia – has been growing rapidly in the U.S., and in many other parts of the world.Maria Godoy, NPR, 13 May 2024
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John was later derailed by astigmatism, which also required surgery.Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 26 Apr. 2024
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Nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism are other forms of refractive errors.Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Presbyopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presbyopia. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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