According to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, more consistent international data are necessary to fully understand myopia and its underlying mechanisms.
“I wish I could tell you the prevalence of myopia in the United States or some estimate of it, but I can’t,” Daphne Maurer, PhD, FRSC, Distinguished University Professor in the department of psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University and report co-author, said in a webinar presentation of the report. “I can’t because the last national data —