Age-related farsightedness may affect more than 1 billion worldwide
Monday, December 8, 2008 - 17:42
in Health & Medicine
It is estimated that more than 1 billion individuals worldwide in 2005 had presbyopia, or age-related difficulty in seeing objects nearby, with an estimated 410 million with the condition unable to perform tasks requiring near vision, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.