This research was also able to identify a number of things that patience is not; specifically, patience is not just the opposite of impatience, delay of gratification, or self-regulation of emotion. The evidence for the effects of patience, though limited, seems to reflect both positive and negative outcomes.
Using the same method, in 1999â2004, myopia prevalence was estimated to have climbed to 41.6%. A study of 2,523 children in grades 1 to 8 (age, 5â17 years) found nearly one in 10 (9.2%) have at least â 0.75 diopters of myopia.
Most people with myopia are below -6.00D, but some people have much higher levels of myopia. How high your myopia is can be a sign of whether it may lead to further problems with your eyes. Most people with myopia of less than -6.00D donât develop any further problems and the blurriness their myopia causes is easily dealt with by glasses or contact lenses.