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Increase In Nearsightedness Due to Texting Fad
December 15, 2009 by admin
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December 15, 2009
Bloomberg.com
By Ellen Gibson
The rate of nearsightedness in the U.S. increased 66 percent since the 1970s, according to a study that researchers say suggests parents should limit the hours kids spend texting and Web-surfing.
The prevalence of myopia rose to 41 percent in a survey done from 1999 to 2004 from 25 percent in a study completed from 1971 to 1972, according to research by the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
It costs $3.8 billion a year to treat poor distance vision, a tab that rises by $1 billion for every 12 percent increase in the rate of nearsightedness, the study said. The likely cause is less outdoor time and more activities requiring close-up viewing such as text-messaging, playing hand-held video games and Web surfing, said the study’s lead author, Susan Vitale.
“Kids these days are spending less time at recess and play,” said David Friedman, a professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore who wasn’t involved in the study. “That lack of outdoor time may be taking its toll. Kids like to be outside, so get them outside to play.”
People with nearsightedness, or myopia, can see clearly close up, but objects in the distance appear blurred. That’s because an elongated eyeball or too-curved cornea causes light to focus in front of the retina, instead of on it.
“It’s an easy disease to treat, but it ends up costing a lot,” Vitale said. The condition is corrected with eyeglasses, contact lenses, or surgery, she said.
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Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest health products company, generated $2.5 billion from vision products such as Acuvue contact lenses last year, more than double sales of $1.17 billion in 2002.
The study, published today in the Archives of Ophthalmology, analyzed data on vision-impairment gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics, based in Hyattsville, Maryland. Researchers gathered vision statistics on people ages 12 to 54. One set of data was collected from 1971 to 1972 on 5,282 people, while a second sample was gathered from 1999 to 2004 on 9,609 individuals.
An increase in activities eye doctors call “near work” such as reading, Web surfing, or other close-up exercises can make the eye shape change and spur nearsightedness over time, said Friedman.
“If you’re viewing everything up close, your eyes get a messenger, or growth factor, to grow longer,” Friedman said. “It’s called ‘accommodation’.”
Outdoor Time
Time spent outdoors, where the eye focuses on the far horizon, reverses that message, Friedman said. The balance between near- and far-focused vision is most important in childhood, he said, because the eye reaches its maximum length in the teen years.
While myopia is fairly easy to correct, this study raises real public-health concerns, Vitale said. Many people go untreated and their work or school performance suffers.
Myopia can lead to more severe eye conditions, such as blindness, said Friedman.
Poor vision “negatively affects people’s daily lives,” said Lisa Jones-Jordan, a research associate professor at Ohio State University in Columbus, who wasn’t involved in the study. “It can impact job performance, cause headaches, and prevent school kids from functioning at the proper level.”
