Did You Know...
Eyes
are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.- Eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts.
- Under the right conditions, eyes can discern the light of a candle at
a distance of 14 miles.
- It is estimated that eyes contribute towards about 85% of your total
knowledge.
- Eyes utilize 65% of all pathways to the brain.
- The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in
the human body for the job they are required to do. They are 100 times
more powerful than they need to be.
- It is impossible to keep ones eyes open when one sneezes.
- The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea.
- The human eye sees everything upside down, but the brain turns it right
side up.
- A blink of an eye last about 1/10 of a second.
- 75% of optometrists wear glasses.
- People have been wearing glasses for more than 700 years.
- Most states require a visual acuity of 20/40 or better to obtain a drivers
license.
- One definition of legal blindness is when your visual acuity is worse
than 20/200, even when wearing glasses.
- It is possible to have a vision problem and still have 20/20 vision.
Only a complete examination can determine if you have a vision problem.
- It is recommended that children have their first eye examination by
three years of age.
- The average person blinks their eyes about 11,500 times per day or about
4.2 million times per year.
- 100 million Americans are visually disabled without corrective lenses.
- Almost all blindness in the U.S. is the result of common eye diseases
(less than 3% is the result of eye injuries).
- 80 million Americans suffer from potentially blinding eye diseases.
- 34 million visits are made to the eye doctor each year.
- 1,100,000 people in the U.S. are legally blind (42 million worldwide).
- 50% of people over age 65 have cataracts.
- 400,000 new cases of cataracts develop each year.
- 5,500 Americans become blind annually due to glaucoma.
- 120,000 Americans are presently blind from glaucoma.
- 30% of those over age 50 are at risk of developing macular degeneration.
- 10 million Americans suffer visual loss due to macular degeneration
(104,000 are legally blind due to macular degeneration).
- Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness among working age Americans.
- 8000 new cases of blindness are caused annually by complications of
diabetes.
- 65,000 working age Americans with diabetic retinopathy could preserve
their vision by having timely treatment.
- 65,000 diabetics each year develop proliferative retinopathy, the most
threatening stage.
- 25,000 cases of retinal detachment are treated each year.
