Ueda E, Yasuda M, Fujiwara K, et al. - In this population-based prospective cohort study, researchers estimated the incidence of myopic maculopathy, a leading cause of irreversible visual impairment worldwide, and its risk factors in Hisayama in southwestern Japan. This investigation was carried out in a Japanese community in Hisayama, Japan. The sample consisted of 2,164 residents 40 years or older [mean (SD) age was 62.4 (10.9) years] who had no myopic maculopathy at the baseline eye examination in 2012 and had follow-up eye examinations in 2017. During the 5-year study period, 24 candidates (1%) developed myopic maculopathy, which is far higher than the incidence in a previous study on a Chinese population. Independent and significant risk factors for myopic maculopathy were aging and longer axial length. Such results should be checked in other parts of the world between different populations.