學習太用功 真的可能導致近視大綱

Can too much studying ruin your eyesight? Maybe. A German study has found that the more education a person has, the greater the likelihood that he will be nearsighted.
太多的學習會損壞視力嗎？也許吧。德國的一項研究發現，一個人接受的教育越多，他患近視的可能性就越大。

The researchers did ophthAlmological and physical examinations on 4,685 people ages 35 to 74. About 38 percent were nearsighted. But of those who graduated after 13 years in the three-tiered German secondary school system, about 60.3 percent were nearsighted, compared with 41.6 percent of those who graduated after 10 years, 27.2 percent of those who graduated after nine years and 26.9 percent of those who never graduated.
研究人員對年齡在35歲到74歲之間的4685人進行了眼科檢查和體檢。其中大約38%都近視。但是在那些畢業於分爲三級的德國中學體系的人當中，上過13年學的人大約有60.3%是近視眼，上過10年的有41.6%，上過9年的有27.2%，而沒畢業的人則有26.9%是近視眼。

The percentage of myopic people was also higher among university graduates than among graduates of vocational schools or those who had no professional training at all. The study was published online in Ophthalmology.
大學畢業生中的近視眼也比畢業於職業學校或那些從未受過職業培訓的人當中的近視眼更多。這項研究被公佈在了《眼科學》(Ophthalmology)雜誌的網站上。

The association remained after adjusting for age, gender and many known myopia-associated variations in DNA sequences.
把與年齡、性別和許多DNA序列中與近視相關的已知差異考慮在內之後，這種聯繫仍然存在。

“The effect on myopia of the genetic variations is much less than the effect of education,” said the lead author, Dr. Alireza Mirshahi, an ophthalmologist at the University Medical Center in Mainz. “We used to think that myopia was predetermined by genetics. This is one proof that environmental factors have a much higher effect than we thought.”
“遺傳差異對近視的影響遠小於教育，”論文的第一作者、德國美因茨大學醫學中心(University Medical Center)眼科醫師阿里-禮薩·米爾沙希博士(Dr. Alireza Mirshahi)說。“我們曾經認爲近視是由遺傳因素預先決定的。這證明環境因素比我們預想的影響更大。”