There may be an association between home confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a myopic shift in children aged 6 to 8 years in China, according to a study.
“The prevalence of myopia increased 1.4 to 3 times in 2020 compared with the previous 5 years as a result of home confinement due to COVID‐19. The refractive status of younger children (6 to 8 years of age) may be more sensitive to environmental changes than older children,” Xuehan Qian, MD, PhD, co-author of the prospective cross-sectional study, told Healio/OSN.
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