The risk of myopia for the use of screens grows to 21% if they are dedicated an hour more

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By 2050, half of the world's population will have myopia. Allowing children and adolescents to do more outdoor activities helps reduce the risk of developing it. And even though they tend to spend more time in their lives in front of tablets, mobile phones and computers, there is no history that strongly demonstrates how these devices can influence their eye health. Now, a meta-analysis published this Friday in JAMA Network Open magazine—about 4…

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The prevalence of myopia is increasing and, according to forecasts, almost half of the world's population will suffer from it by 2050

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Photo by depositphotos.com Seoul, South Korea.- Dedicating an additional hour daily to digital screens is associated, from the first hour, with 21 percent more probability of suffering myopia, indicates a study by Korean researchers and published by the scientific journal ‘Jama Network Open’. The researchers concluded that the risk of myopia “increased significantly from one to four hours of screen and, from then on, the increase was made more g…

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Seoul. — One more hour per day is associated with digital screens, starting in the first hour, with 21 percent more likely to suffer from myopia. This is indicated by a study by Korean researchers and published by Jama Network Open. The authors carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of 45 studies already published in which 335,524 children and adolescents from two to 19 years of age participated. To say from the analysis, the myopia i…

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Just 1 hour of screen time a day increases kids' risk of being short-s

The old wives tale that too much screen time will give you square eyes, may contain a grain of truth, with researchers finding that an hour spent in front of screens increases kids' risk of myopia - or short-sightedness - by 21%. The Korean research pulled together 45 studies looking at over 300,000 kids, and found that the risk of myopia increased significantly between one to four hours of daily screen time, and then rose more gradually after f…

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The risk of myopia for the use of screens grows to 21% if they are dedicated an hour more

By 2050, half of the world’s population will have myopia. Allowing children and adolescents to do more outdoor activities helps reduce the risk of developing it. And although they tend to spend more time from their lives in front of tablets, mobiles and computers, there are no history that demonstrates with forcefulness how these devices can influence their ocular health. Now, a meta -analysis published this Friday in the magazine Jama Network O…