What The Study Did: This study of 1,400 elementary and junior high school students in Tokyo estimated the rate of nearsightedness.
Authors: Toshihide Kurihara, M.D., Ph.D., and Kazuo Tsubota, M.D., Ph.D., of the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2019.3103)
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