Smoking or spending many hours in front of a screen are some of the unhealthy life habits that affect the development of myopia.
The impact of life habits on myopia are collected in the study ‘The pandemic of myopia. Factors that have sent us here and that will determine our future ‘of the Vision and Life Association.
Myopia is a visual defect that affects 6 out of 10 young people. More than half of the people between 18 and 34 are already myopes (57.7% of women and 48.7% of men)”, According to the aforementioned report.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2050 the rates of Visual disability They could triple if no preventive actions are performed.
In the survey that has been carried out for its realization, and on whose responses the study is based, controllable factors are recorded, which can be avoided by the human factor, and those innate that it is impossible to avoid and, therefore, must be monitored from the first years of life.
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Life habits and myopia development
Smoking, not having eaten fruit and vegetables in childhood, spending a few hours abroad at childhood (before ten years) and spending a lot of time before screens they seem decisive when a young man develops myopia, according to the report.
Sufficient fruits and vegetables
Food has a direct incidence in Visual health And, of course, in health in general. Thus, depriving in the eyes of the necessary contribution of vitamins A, C, E, lutein and other essential components for ocular development has a direct impact on the state of the vision of now young people.
Sedentary and exposure to screens
Those young people who since childhood have enjoyed a more sedentary leisure in interior spaces have 20.7% more myopia than those who have played more in the street, arriving myopia to affect seven out of ten young people in the first group. Also, those who practiced exterior sports are 11% less myopes than those who did not practice sports (63.4% vs 52.4%), explains the Vision and Life Association.
“As a fact, it is very noteworthy to know that video game lovers, those who dedicate more than five hours a day to it, are mine in 70%,” they emphasize.
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Smoking
Similarly, smoking shows a direct relationship with the development of myopia, being the most precocious when smoking (between 10 and 14 years) a 17%more mine (47.5%) than those who began at 25-30 years (30.5%).
Intensive vision use
Likewise, the level of studies of the person is usually related to a more intensive use of nearby vision and in closed spaces. Thus we know that myopia affects 26%more people with higher studies (59.3%) than those with primary studies (33.3%).
Those whose hobby is the study or reading and dedicate to it more than seven hours a day are 15.1%more myopes (64.1%) than those who do less than an hour a day (49%).
Innate factors that predispose us to myopia
On the other hand, this study extracts some variables that, not being controllable, must be monitored from the first years of life to control, prevent and curb the development of that myopia that probably, probably develop.
These include genetics (the existence or not of background or first -degree relatives with myopia in the family), as well as the age and redness of the eyes when the next vision is used. Factors that, not being able to avoid, should jump alarm to the family when they happen.
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Combination of factors
As the study concludes, there are three combinations of factors and habits, and a unique factor, which seem to have a very important relevance in the development of myopia. Are the following:
• Background – smoking – redness and hechor of eyes in near vision. It is the most likely combination of developing myopia. Of these, only smoking is avoidable.
• Background – age – hours before screens – poor fruit and vegetable diet. Given the factors of age and family history, which are uncontrollable, the only thing that the family can do is PERIODS THE VISION and take action before the first signs of the appearance of the problem. However, the other two do work by putting, as far as possible, tools to prevent myopic development from producing or, that it occurs as late as possible and to a lesser extent.
• Background – Outdoor hours.
• No myopic in the family. Fourth, we find a variable that plays a role alone and whose response is based on the statement that “there is no myopic in the family” that indicates us in a relevant way that the possibilities of that minor to develop myopia in his adolescence or adult stage are reduced.
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The importance of checking regularly
However, the most surprising for experts, in addition to habits in relation to myopia, is that, despite all existing information, one in four young people has never reviewed the vision or does so every three years or more and, however, 59.6% suffer from itching and redness of eyes and one in three believes that it does not see well.
This figure increases, in a alarming way, to eight out of ten in the case of myopic. These, in turn, continue to present a genetic component of great concern: 63.2% of mine between 18 and 34 years have a family history of visual pathologies, such as DMAE or glaucoma.
Analyzing these variables, we can also face a large percentage of the population that, in the adult stage, suffers problems of low vision and even blindness, which could be prevented in 95% of cases taking the relevant control measures.
In addition, it must be borne in mind that it is not only important to ensure that myopia does not develop, since on many occasions it will be impossible, but to control that it does not reach risk quotas. That is, it does not exceed the five diopters that is considered “pathological myopia” and that can lead to serious problems in the adult stage of the minor or young, according to the Vision and Life Association.
(With EFE information)
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