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The use of mobile screens is causing a significant increase in cases of myopia in young people. In fact, 6,5 out of every 10 children between 8 and 15 years old, the generation of digital natives, are myopic in Spain, according to experts from Hospital La Salud.
It is a disorder that causes the image to not focus well on the retina, so distant objects appear blurry. One of the causes of this increase is that 7 out of 10 young people spend only less than an hour a day doing outdoor activities and more than half spend between 4 and 8 hours in front of a mobile screen.
According to these specialists, about half of young people have had their first mobile phone between the ages of 6 and 12, that is, in Primary School. And year after year this age is reduced, which is causing an increase in this pathology, an increase in diopters (-0,75 per year on average) and increasingly at younger ages (from 7 to 12 years). "These figures indicate that when these children are of university age they will have many more diopters than previous generations," they warn.
