Published on December 19, 2024 at 12:06 p.m. / Modified on December 19, 2024 at 12:08.
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Is your smartphone screen the last thing you see before closing your eyes at night and the first thing you see when you open them in the morning? Let he who has never sinned cast the first stone at you… But should we be worried in the long term? A study published in 2016 in the journal Ophthalmology sounded the alarm: almost half of the world’s population – or some 5 billion people – would be myopic in 2050. And a billion would suffer from severe myopia, likely to cause serious eye pathologies. The fault, among others, of our smartphones, which we no longer take our eyes off. So, soon all will be myopic? Before becoming alarmed, let’s examine the mechanisms that cause vision loss when we look at our screens.
Myopia is a vision disorder that prevents you from seeing clearly in the distance. Concretely, it is an excessive elongation of the eyeball: in the eye, the image is formed in front of the retina and appears blurry. However, it is by fixing our gaze on an object that is too close that we risk lengthening the eyeball.
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