Medical Portal

Children who have been given birth in the winter have smaller chances to become short-sighted during the life, and better eyesight than those who were born in the summer, informed in press release of the Tel Aviv university.
During one of the most scale ophthalmologic researches in the world, headed by the senior ophthalmologist of Israeli armed forces Jossy Mandel, scientists have studied data on 300000 Israelis in the age of from 16 to 23 years.
Scientists tried to find connection between month of a child’s birth and chances of short-sightedness development in the further and received rather convincing results. As it appeared, children who were born in June and July, run 24 % more risk of heavy short-sightedness than those given birth in December and January. According to researchers, it is fair for children from any country of the world.
This regularity can be explained by the remote consequences of sunlight effect on the child in the beginning of his or her life, makes comments on the received data Michael Belkin from Institute of eye research at Tel Aviv university.