METHOD FOR PREDICTING ACQUIRED MYOPIA IN SCHOOL CHILDREN Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G01N33/48 G01N33/68 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to a method for the prediction of acquired myopia in school children. The substance of the method consists in measuring blood haemoglobin concentrations in 6-8-year-old school children to detect haemoglobin deficiency as shown by the difference of an optimum haemoglobin concentration specific for the above age and an actual haemoglobin concentration in a child. If observing no haemoglobin deficiency at the age of 6-8 years old, a low risk of acquired myopia is predicted. The haemoglobin deficiency to 1.7 g/l enables predicting a risk of acquired low myopia. If the haemoglobin deficiency is 1.7 g/l and more, a high risk of progressive myopia to be developed into moderate or high myopia is predicted.

EFFECT: using the declared method enables developing the reliable and accessible method for the prediction of myopia in the 6-8-year-old children.

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