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When Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Sarah Michelle Gellar noticed her son Rocky struggling to focus on his screen during an online learning session, she assumed it was due to eye strain. According to the World Health Organisation, nearly two billion people were diagnosed with myopia in 2010, accounting for one-quarter of the global population. “Surveys show that nearly 40-50% of world population has myopia,” says Dr Swapnali Sabhapandit, director and senior surgeon, Institute of Ophthalmic Sciences, AIG Hospitals. “Research has suggested that increased indoor time, with more near-focused work, like electronic screen, video games or extensive reading, leads to onset and increase in myopia in children. “Being confined indoors and lacking exposure to sunlight has adversely affected the paediatric population all over the world with regard to myopia onset and progression,” adds the ophthalmologist.
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