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With up to one billion people at an increased risk of blindness, myopia is all set to become the leading cause of permanent blindness globally.

Further, with the findings suggesting that the US will have 260 million myopes by 2050, up from the 90 million in 2000, and Canada will see 66 million high myopes by 2050, up from the 11 million in 2000, the vision loss from high myopia is expected to increase seven-fold from 2000 to 2050.