Long hours of studies are damaging our eyes

Long hours of studies are damaging our eyes

According to a recent study spending more hours studying is making us shortsighted. Myopia or shortsightedness, which is affecting 90 percent of the pupils in East Asian Countries is a consequence of intensive education and long hours of studies. According to a research from the UK spending extra time studying is worsening our shortsightedness. The researchers from the Bristol and Cardiff Universities said “the difference is so great that if the average person who leaves school at 16 has 20/20 vision, the average university graduate would legally need glasses to drive.” According to the researchers, myopia is the leading cause of the visual disability around the world and its rate is increasing rapidly. By 2050, it is estimated that half of the world’s population will be suffering from myopia (five billion people) as compared to the 1.4 billion people today. Professor Jez Guggenheim and colleagues from the School of Optometryand Vision Sciences at Cardiff University studied 68,000 British men and women for the study. In high-income Asian countries such as Singapore, South Korea and China where education pressure is intense as many 90 percent of the children are reported to be suffering myopia by the time they leave the school at 18 and half of these children became myopic by the time they finished their primary education. "Our study provides strong evidence that length of time spent in education is a causal risk factor for myopia," said Prof Guggenheim. "Policymakers should be aware that the educational practices used to teach children and to promote personal and economic health may have the unintended consequence of causing increasing levels of myopia and later visual disability as a result."

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