Daily Mail

BEING

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highly educated means you are more likely to be shortsight­ed, scientists have found.

The length of time someone spends in education is linked to a greater risk of the condition, researcher­s said.

It is thought that years spent poring over books or staring at screens damages sight. The Bristol and Cardiff University researcher­s, whose study was published in the British Medical Journal, found every additional year of education was associated with a lessening of how effectivel­y the eye’s lens refracts light.

A graduate with 17 years of education would be more short-sighted than someone who left school at 16.

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