Scheetz Jane (Orcid ID: 0000-0003-0523-1927) He Mingguang (Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6912-2810) Visual impairment in highly myopic eyes: the ZOC-BHVI high myopia cohort study Yu Jiang MD,* 1 Decai Wang MD PhD,* 1 Xiaotong Han MD PhD, 1 Chimei Liao MD, 1 Zhixi Li MD, 1 Jane Scheetz PhD, 2,3 Monica Jong PhD BOptom, 4,5 Padmaja Sankaridurg PhD 4,5 and Mingguang He MD PhD 1,2,3 *Co-first authors. 1. State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China 2. Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. 3. Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. 4. Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 5. School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW, Australia. Correspondence: Mingguang He, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510060, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: mingguang_he@yahoo.com Short running title: Visual impairment in high myopes This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This is the author manuscript accepted for publication and has undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/ceo.13779