Cardiometabolic Disorders Tend to Accompany a 'Lazy Eye'

Pediatrician Stephen Daniels, of University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, said that an amblyopia-cardiometabolic link would be “hard to explain from a mechanism standpoint.” He suggested that a “third factor (perhaps the intrauterine environment) influences both outcomes (amblyopia and cardiometabolic dysfunction), but this would be very speculative,” he told MedPage Today in an email.