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re: UV risk

At 11:49 PM 1/29/96, Dr. George A. Themelis wrote:

>
>Makes me think twice before getting out on a sunny day without sunglasses.
>I personally don't like sunglasses.  Should I be wearing any?
>

Yes!  There is a definite link between cumulative UV exposure &
certain forms of blindness in later life.  Comes from studies of
patients after cataract surgery in both eyes in which the
replacement lens in one eye filtered UV & the other didn't.  The
non-UV-filtered eye was significantly worse.  Wear those
sunglasses!

-Jim C.


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Jim Crowell
U.C. Berkeley School of Optometry
360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642-7679
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