VDT eye focus loss told // Researcher finds high incidence among workers

BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI) Regular work in front of a VDT screenmay cause premature loss of the eye's ability to focus, a Universityof California optometrist says.

James Sheedy said deterioration in eye focusing among people intheir 20s and 30s was the No. 1 problem found in 153 patients treatedat the university's Video Display Terminal Eye Clinic.

The first clinical report on eye focusing in VDT users, compiledfor an Ohio symposium, supports earlier evidence in laboratorieslinking VDT work to problems with the eye's focusing mechanism.

Sheedy, chief of the VDT clinic and associate clinical professorat the university's School of Optometry, said the …