Keratoconus is more likely in adolescents with overweight or obesity than in their normal and underweight counterparts, according to an Israeli population study published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
“Israeli adolescents recruited for mandatory military service undergo a medical and cognitive assessment at mean age of 17 years,” Adiel Barak, MD, of the department of ophthalmology at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in Israel, told Healio/OSN. “We have already published results of long-term changes in myopia,
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