Education and myopia: assessing the direction of causality by mendelian randomisation | The BMJ - discu.eu

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More time spent in education is a causal risk factor for short-sightedness, or myopia, finds a new study that assessed the direction of causality by mendelian randomisation. More specifically, every additional year in education caused an increase in myopic refractive error of −0.27 dioptres/y. https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2022 3 comments 7/6/2018 science

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