What Eye Color and Shape Say About Your Health
Eye Cancer
Trustworthiness
Blood Sugar Issues
Hearing Loss
Drink Dependence
Endometriosis
Response to Therapy
Different Dilations
Vitiligo
Cataracts
Star Pupils
Multicolored Eyes
Sports Skills
Pain Tolerance
Macular Degeneration
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SOURCES:
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The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center: “Increased Eye Cancer Risk Linked to Pigmentation Genes That Dictate Eye Color.”
PLOS ONE: “Trustworthy-Looking Face Meets Brown Eyes.”
Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews: “Blue eyes as a risk factor for type 1 diabetes.”
Hearing Research: “Eye color as a risk factor for acquired sensorineural hearing loss: a review.”
American Journal of Medical Genetics: “Eye color: A potential indicator of alcohol dependence risk in European Americans.”
Human Reproduction: “'Behind blue eyes': the association between eye colour and deep infiltrating endometriosis.”
Journal of Clinical Psychology: Eye color as a predictor of outcomes in behavior therapy.
American Academy of Ophthalmology: “What is Anisocoria?”
Nature Genetics: “Genome-wide association studies of autoimmune vitiligo identify 23 new risk loci and highlight key pathways and regulatory variants.”
Cognitive Psychology: “The relationship between baseline pupil size and intelligence.”
American Journal of Ophthalmology: “Iris color and cataract: the Blue Mountains Eye Study.”
National Organization for Rare Disorders: “Waardenburg Syndrome.”
Perceptual and Motor Skills: “Correlation of eye color on self-paced and reactive motor performance.”
Medscape: “Does Eye Color Predict Response to Pain?”
Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology: “Iris colour, ethnic origin and progression of age-related macular degeneration.”