Loss Of Eyesight,The Worst Ailment

Most Americans Regard Loss Of Eyesight As The Worst Ailment That Could Befall Them, Study Finds.

In print and in its “Well” blog, the New York Times  (2/20, D5, Brody, Subscription Publication) reports, “A recent study  from researchers at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that most Americans regard loss of eyesight as the worst ailment that could happen to them.” What’s more, “low vision ranks behind arthritis and heart disease as the third most common chronic cause of impaired functioning in people over 70, Dr. Eric A. Rosenberg of Weill Cornell Medical College and Laura C. Sperazza, a New York optometrist, wrote 

in American Family Physician.”