Let Us Avoid a ‘Myopic View’ in Times of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people from almost all facets of life and it’s impact is extremely palpable among students. In this review paper, we discuss about the risk factors for myopia progression that were exacerbated by the pandemic, which are supported by evidence from studies published...

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Autores principales: Yien, Lai, Lun, Katherine, Ngo, Cheryl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9406293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36010016
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9081125
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people from almost all facets of life and it’s impact is extremely palpable among students. In this review paper, we discuss about the risk factors for myopia progression that were exacerbated by the pandemic, which are supported by evidence from studies published recently. It is imperative that measures are put in place to address the rising incidence of myopia so as to prevent the impending myopia pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-94062932022-08-26 Let Us Avoid a ‘Myopic View’ in Times of COVID-19 Yien, Lai Lun, Katherine Ngo, Cheryl Children (Basel) Review The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people from almost all facets of life and it’s impact is extremely palpable among students. In this review paper, we discuss about the risk factors for myopia progression that were exacerbated by the pandemic, which are supported by evidence from studies published recently. It is imperative that measures are put in place to address the rising incidence of myopia so as to prevent the impending myopia pandemic. MDPI 2022-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9406293/ /pubmed/36010016 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9081125 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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