The growing burden of myopia in Europe: evidence from population-based cohorts

Affiliations

Asc Academics B.V., Groningen, the Netherlands; Department of Health Sciences, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Santen Pharmaceutical, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta; Department of Ophthalmology, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta; Ophthalmology, Pathophysiology and Epidemiology of Cerebro-Cardiovascular Diseases (PEC2), Université Bourgogne Europe, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, 21000, Dijon, France; University Eye Clinic Maastricht, MUMC+, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Ufa Eye Research Institute, Ufa, Russia; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Computer Simulation, Genomics and Data Analysis Laboratory, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean, Lemnos, Greece; Population, Policy and Practice Programme, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK; Dept. of Cardiovascular Sciences and Dept. of Population Health Sciences, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, and Cardiovascular Research Centre, Leicester, UK; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Population Health Sciences, Bonn, Germany; Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; King’s College, London, UK; Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Centre for Public Health, Queens University, Kingston, Canada; AIBILI-Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research On Light and Image, 3000-548, Coimbra, Portugal; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, BPH, U1219, 33000, Bordeaux, France; Ophthalmology Department, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal; Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal; Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Section of Ophthalmology, King’s College London, St Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK; Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Rothschild Foundation Hospital, Paris, France; Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore, Singapore; Tsinghua Medicine, Beijing Visual Science and Translational Eye Research Institute (BERI), Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK; MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, UK; Centre for Medical Informatics, Department of Medical Data Science, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig University, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107, Leipzig, Germany; Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases (LIFE), Leipzig University, 04103, Leipzig, Germany; Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics, and Epidemiology (IMISE), Leipzig University, 04107, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, 55131, Mainz, Germany; Department of Ophthalmology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Center, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland; FinCCHTA, North Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Services County, Oulu, Finland; Department of Public Health, University of Malta, Msida, Malta; Population, Policy and Practice Department and Ullverscroft Vision Research Group, GOS Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK; Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK; Great Ormond Street Hospital and GOSH NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK; Moorfields NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK; Department of Ophthalmology, Leipzig University Hospital, Liebigstr. 10, 04103, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Ophthalmology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 162 City Road, London, EC1V 2PD, UK; Department of Ophthalmology, Sight and Sound Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH, UK.