COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Thomas Kohnen, MD, PhD, FEBO, delivered “The Short-Sighted World” as the Binkhorst Medal Lecture at the 2025 European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
“Be aware that in 2050, we will have 4 billion people myopic in the world. That’s maybe half of the population,” he said in his presentation. “Correction is not a treatment, and we need to do further research in this area.”
In many cases, myopia has a genetic component, but there are well-known modifiable risk factors, such as near work and less time spent outdoors, that can be addressed by lifestyle