Seeing Is Living

What people would give up for better vision

(HealthDayNews) -- Given the choice, would you rather live 10 years without sight, or opt to die sooner if your vision could be improved?

That's the question researchers from Wills Eye Hospital of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia put to 325 of their patients. Most patients, regardless of age, say they would be willing to give up time in return for better vision, but the amount of time depends on the extent of vision loss.

As reported by Transactions of the American Ophthamological Society, patients with 20/40 vision in the better eye would be willing to give up two years of every remaining decade of life in order to have perfect vision.

And patients with extremely poor vision would be willing to give up five years of every remaining decade.

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