02/06/2026
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Obesity May be Tied to Higher Pediatric Astigmatism Incidence
Children who were overweight, severely overweight or experienced malnutrition were more likely to have at least 1D of cyl in a recent study.
Most astigmatism cases presented as “with-the-rule” forms, the most common type of astigmatism. This type comprised 96.3% of eyes in the astigmatism group. The authors speculated that astigmatism was caused by obesity-related “periorbital fat increasing eyelid pressure on the cornea.” They explained that “obese children and adolescents have shallow orbits and prominent periorbital fat in the eyelids, which may lead to greater pressure on the cornea from the eyelids.”
Read the story in today's News Feed: https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/news/article/obesity-may-be-tied-to-higher-pediatric-astigmatism-incidence
