{"id":34718,"date":"2021-08-03T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/covid-restrictions-and-screens-linked-to-myopia-in-children-study-shows"},"modified":"2021-08-03T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:30:39","slug":"covid-restrictions-and-screens-linked-to-myopia-in-children-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34718","title":{"rendered":"Covid restrictions and screens linked to myopia in children, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong research suggests less time outdoors and more doing \u2018near work\u2019 accelerates short-sightedness<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spending more time indoors and on screens because of Covid restrictions may be linked to an increased rate of short-sightedness in children, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which looked at two groups of children aged six to eight in Hong Kong, is the latest to suggest that lockdowns and other restrictions may have taken a toll on eyesight: data from more than 120,000 children of a similar age in China, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamaophthalmology\/fullarticle\/2774808\">published earlier this year<\/a>, suggested a threefold increase in the prevalence of shortsightedness, or myopia, in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/covid-restrictions-and-screens-linked-to-myopia-in-children-study-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong research suggests less time outdoors and more doing \u2018near work\u2019 accelerates short-sightednessCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpending more time indoors and on screens because of Covid restrictions may be linked to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1991,1066,48,512,299,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-childrens-health","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-medical-research","category-science","category-society","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions\/34719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}